Orange County Indexed
Will of William Brown
Will Book C, page 109 · dated 19 November 1794 · proved February 1800
William Brown named his wife and children, left five shillings to each married child, and appointed two executors.
- Kind of paper
- Will
- Testator
- William Brown (printed WILLIAM BROWN)
- Dated
- 19 November 1794
- Proved
- February 1800 court
- In the court minutes
- Family named
- Hannah (wife); Joel Brown (son); William Brown (son); Deborah Brown (daughter)
- Executors
- Joel Brown (son); Jacob Marshall (friend)
- Witnesses
- William Brown; Jacob Brown; William Stout
- Money and goods
- five shillings to each of my married children
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 109.
- 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).
