Orange County Indexed
Will of Joseph Cate
Will Book C, page 28 · dated 24 December 1793 · proved August 1794
Joseph Cate named his wife and five children and appointed his wife and brother executors.
- Kind of paper
- Will
- Testator
- Joseph Cate (printed JOSEPH CATE)
- Dated
- 24 December 1793
- Proved
- August 1794 court
- Family named
- Ann (wife); Solomon (son); Charles (son); Steven (son); Esther (daughter); Sall (daughter); Thomas (brother)
- Executors
- Ann (wife); Thomas (brother)
- Witnesses
- John Cate; Elizabeth Cate; John Workman
- Places
- Cane Creek
- Also named
- John Cate (neighbors); Thomas Baskett (neighbors); Thomas Durham (neighbors); W. or Mr. Brewer (neighbors)
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 28.
- 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).
- Microfilm at the Orange County Public Library, Wall Local History Collection: reel 80002, “Record of Wills, 1794–1822, Vols. C, D” (State Archives film).
