Orange County Indexed
Will of Tents Massey
Will Book C, page 67 · dated 7 October 1795 · proved November 1795
Tenis Massey named his wife, son and daughter and appointed his wife and mother executors.
- Kind of paper
- Will
- Testator
- Tents Massey (printed TENTS MASSEY)
- Dated
- 7 October 1795
- Proved
- November 1795 court
- Family named
- Ruth (wife); James (son); Mary (daughter); Hannah Ray (my mother)
- Executors
- Ruth (wife); Hannah Ray (my mother)
- Witnesses
- Eli Harvey; Nathan Hicks
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 67.
- 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).
