Orange County Indexed
Will of John (x) Boyle
Will Book C, page 90 · dated 12 September 1796 · proved November 1796
John Boyle named his wife, sons and grandson, devised Cumberland land, and appointed two sons executors.
- Kind of paper
- Will
- Testator
- John (x) Boyle (printed JOHN (x) BOYLE)
- Dated
- 12 September 1796
- Proved
- November 1796 court
- In the court minutes
- Family named
- Martha Boyle (wife); John Boyle (son); William Boyle (son); James (my son); John Boyle (grandson, son to my son James)
- Executors
- James (son); John Boyle (son)
- Witnesses
- Samuel Thompson; Wm. Boyle; James Boyle
- Land
- each 500 acres of land lying in Cumberland in company with Jesse Benton and Charles Parate; 500 acres
- Money and goods
- a Bible
- Places
- Cumberland
- Also named
- Jesse Benton (land in company with); Charles Parate (land in company with)
Reading note: Executor sons surname printed only after John; retained as printed.
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 90.
- 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).
