Orange County Indexed
Will of Andrew Patten (or Patton)
Will Book B, page 97 · dated 28 January 1790 · proved August 1790
Andrew Patten named wife Margaret, four sons, daughter Sarah and unnamed younger children, distributed land, and appointed Joseph Thompson and James Hughes executors.
- Kind of paper
- Will
- Testator
- Andrew Patten (or Patton) (printed ANDREW PATTEN (or PATTON))
- Dated
- 28 January 1790
- Proved
- August 1790 court
- A second reading
- Mark Chilton’s index of the will books gives the testator as Andrew Patton. Check the will book to settle it.
- In the court minutes
- Family named
- Margaret (wife); Robert (son); Thomas (son); John (son); Andrew (son); Sarah Hughes (daughter)
- Executors
- Joseph Thompson (friends); James Hughes (friends)
- Witnesses
- Henry Campbell; Robert Tinnen; John Thompson
- Land
- all my Cumberland lands - one survey; land in Orange County
- Places
- Cumberland; Orange County
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 97.
- 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).
