Orange County Indexed
Will of Joseph Courtney
Will Book C, page 161 · dated 16 July 1799 · proved February 1800
Joseph Courtney left land to his wife, named his father, and appointed two executors.
- Kind of paper
- Will
- Testator
- Joseph Courtney (printed JOSEPH COURTNEY)
- Dated
- 16 July 1799
- Proved
- February 1800 court
- In the court minutes
- Family named
- Hannah (wife); William Courtney (father); Wm. Courtney (my brother)
- Executors
- Absolom Tatom (Major); William Whitehead (Jr.)
- Witnesses
- Robert Bell; Abner Tapp
- Land
- lately belonging to my brother Wm. Courtney which he purchased from Wm. Courtney, Sr; other lands bounded by lands of Gilbert Strayhorn
- Money and goods
- Bond on Robert Glenn of Person County
- Also named
- Wm. Courtney (previous land seller; Sr); Gilbert Strayhorn (adjoining landowner); Robert Glenn (bond; of Person County)
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 161.
- 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).
