Orange County Indexed
Will of John (x) Reed
Will Book B, page 35 · dated 21 April 1786
John Reed named wife Lydia and daughters Rebecca and Jemimah, described creek property, and appointed Henry Cole executor.
- Kind of paper
- Will
- Testator
- John (x) Reed (printed JOHN (x) REED)
- Dated
- 21 April 1786
- Proved
- Date not given
- A second reading
- Mark Chilton’s index of the will books gives the probate as August 1788. Check the will book to settle it.
- In the court minutes
- Family named
- Lydia Reed (wife); Rebecca Reed (daughter); Jemimah Reed (daughter)
- Executor
- Henry Cole
- Witnesses
- Thomas Cole; Wm. McMennamy; John McMennamy
- Deeds that cite this paper
- Deed Book 24, page 38; Deed Book 7, page 259
- Land
- His property is on Stagg's Creek and Hico Creek.
- Places
- Stagg's Creek; Hico Creek
Names and places are given as the abstract writes them, spelling and all. This record has not been checked against the will book.
Where to find it
- Orange County Will Book B, page 35.
- Abstract: Ruth Herndon Shields, Abstracts of Wills Recorded 1752 through 1800 in Orange County, North Carolina, Will Books A, B and C (Davie Poplar Chapter NSDAR, revised edition 1966).
- Also listed in Mark Chilton, “Wills Recorded in Orange County, NC 1756–1893” (Wandering through the NC Piedmont, 2019), an index of the will books with references to the court minutes.
- Microfilm at the Orange County Public Library, Wall Local History Collection: reel 80001, “Record of Wills, 1752–1795, Vols. A, B” (State Archives film).
