Orange County Indexed
Will of Rainey Phillips
Will Book C, page 117 · dated 31 March 1798 · proved May 1798
Rainey Phillips named his wife, children and stepchildren, devised land, and appointed his unnamed wife and brother executors.
- Kind of paper
- Will
- Testator
- Rainey Phillips (printed RAINEY PHILLIPS)
- Dated
- 31 March 1798
- Proved
- May 1798 court
- In the court minutes
- Family named
- Mary (wife); Ben Rainey (son); Polly (daughter); Rachel (daughter); Hannah Johnston (daughter); Lucretia (daughter); William Phillips (brother); Henry (stepson); Leander (stepdaughter)
- Executor
- William Phillips (brother)
- Witnesses
- Sarah Phillips; William Madray
- Land
- 100 acres on N. Side of Haw River bought of Widow Parks
- Places
- Haw River
- Also named
- Parks (Widow)
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 117.
- 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), page 60.
- 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).
