Orange County Indexed
Will of Joshua Wyatt
Will Book C, page 144 · dated 17 October 1796 · proved August 1799
Joshua Wyatt named his wife and four children, devised purchased land, and appointed his wife and sons executors.
- Kind of paper
- Will
- Testator
- Joshua Wyatt (printed JOSHUA WYATT)
- Dated
- 17 October 1796
- Proved
- August 1799 court
- In the court minutes
- Family named
- Elizabeth (wife); Joshua Wyatt (son); Frederick Wyatt (son); Joshua (son); Frederick (son); Elizabeth Wyatt (daughter); Mary Simpson (daughter)
- Executors
- Elizabeth (wife); Joshua (son); Frederick (son)
- Witnesses
- Will Wilkins; Mary (x) Wilkins
- Land
- land bought of Isaac Dorris
- Also named
- Isaac Dorris (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 144.
- 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).
