Orange County Indexed
Will of George Riggs
Will Book C, page 126 · dated 6 April 1798 · proved November 1798
George Riggs named his wife, eleven children and grandson and appointed his wife and John Latta executors.
- Kind of paper
- Will
- Testator
- George Riggs (printed GEORGE RIGGS)
- Dated
- 6 April 1798
- Proved
- November 1798 court
- In the court minutes
- Family named
- Sarah (wife); William Riggs (son); James Riggs (son); Mary Newton (daughter); Jane Eakins (daughter); Sarah Montgomery (daughter); Ann Cell (?) (daughter); Susannah Watson (daughter); Elizabeth Watson (daughter); Margaret Riggs (daughter); Agnes Riggs (daughter); Rachel Riggs (daughter); James Woods (grandson)
- Executors
- Sarah (wife); John Latta (Senior)
- Witnesses
- John Latta; Elizabeth (x) Latta; Eliz. Latta (Jr.)
Reading note: Source questions Ann Cell (?).
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 126.
- 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).
