Will of Alexander Mebane

Alexander Mebane named his wife, sons, daughters and grandchildren and appointed three executors.

Kind of paper

Will

Testator

Alexander Mebane (printed ALEXANDER MEBANE)

Dated

3 July 1795

Proved

August 1795 court

Family named

Ann (wife; has property in Philadelphia); John Alexander (son); William (son); Robert (son); James (son); Jannet Stanford (daughter); Mary Hodge (daughter); Sarah (daughter); Fanny (daughter); Susannah (daughter); Elizabeth (daughter); Nancy (daughter); Arriana (grandchild); Mary Stanford (grandchild); James (brother)

Executors

James (son); James (brother); Robert Hodge

Witnesses

Wm. Hodge; John Matthews

Places

Philadelphia

Reading note: Source marker C-53 to 56 overlaps preceding wills; grandchildren surname printed only after Mary.

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, pages 53–56.
• 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).