Orange County Indexed
Will of Robert Barnhill
Will Book C, page 100 · dated 1 August 1797 · proved August 1797
Robert Barnhill named his wife and two sons, devised a plantation, and appointed his wife sole executor.
- Kind of paper
- Will
- Testator
- Robert Barnhill (printed ROBERT BARNHILL)
- Dated
- 1 August 1797
- Proved
- August 1797 court
- In the court minutes
- Family named
- Margaret (wife); James (eldest son); John (son)
- Executor
- Margaret (wife)
- Witnesses
- Thomas Johnston; George Fausett
- Land
- plantation whereon he lives
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 C, page 100.
- 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 80002, “Record of Wills, 1794–1822, Vols. C, D” (State Archives film).
