Orange County Indexed
Will of Edward Gains
Will Book C, page 142 · dated 1 August 1799 · proved August 1799
Edward Gains named his wife and ten children and appointed his unnamed wife and son Thomas executors.
- Kind of paper
- Will
- Testator
- Edward Gains (printed EDWARD GAINS)
- Dated
- 1 August 1799
- Proved
- August 1799 court
- In the court minutes
- Family named
- Susannah (wife); Thomas Gains (son); Joseph Gains (son); Francis Gains (son); Solomon Gains (son); Broadus Gains (son); Wilson Gains (son); Thomas (son); Susannah Gains (daughter); Elizabeth Gains (daughter); Mary Gains (daughter); Nancy Gains (daughter)
- Executor
- Thomas (son)
- Witnesses
- Isaac Rainey; Asa (x) Kent; Rob’t (x) Pinkerton
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 142.
- 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).
