Orange County Indexed
Will of Abijah (x) Massey
Will Book C, page 120 · dated 20 August 1798 · proved August 1798
Abijah Massey named his wife, mentioned unnamed children and purchased land, and appointed his brother and father-in-law executors.
- Kind of paper
- Will
- Testator
- Abijah (x) Massey (printed ABIJAH (x) MASSEY)
- Dated
- 20 August 1798
- Proved
- August 1798 court
- Family named
- Jemima (wife); Abner Massey (brother); William Pendergrass (my Honorable Father-in-Law)
- Executors
- Abner Massey (brother); William Pendergrass (my Honorable Father-in-Law)
- Witnesses
- Matthew McCauley; Jobe (x) Pendergrass; John Pendergrass
- Land
- a tract of land bought from John Conally
- Also named
- John Conally (previous land seller)
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 120.
- 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).
