Orange County Indexed
Will of William (x) Deley
Will Book D, page 105 · dated 25 August 1794 · proved August 1803
William Deley left his plantation to wife Isble for life, then William Deley; he named relatives and appointed Isbel and James Ector executors.
- Kind of paper
- Will
- Testator
- William (x) Deley (printed WILLIAM (x) DELEY)
- Dated
- 25 August 1794
- Proved
- August 1803 court
- Family named
- Isble Deley (wife); Isbel (wife); James Gibens (son-in-law); George Reed (son-in-law)
- Also left something
- William Deley (son of John Deley); Wm. Deley Reed (son of George Reed); Resey (daughters of John Deley); Isbel Deley (daughters of John Deley); William (son of Samuel Ector)
- Executors
- Isbel (wife); James Ector
- Witnesses
- Samuel Ector; Joseph (x) Ector, Jr.
- Land
- plantation during her lifetime, then it falls to William Deley son of John Deley
- Also named
- John Deley (father of William, Resey and Isbel Deley); Catherine Gibens (his wife); Mary Reed (his wife); Samuel Ector (father of William)
- In the paper’s words
- “weak in body”
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 D, page 105.
- Abstract: Ruth Herndon Shields, Abstracts of Wills Recorded in Orange County, North Carolina, 1800–1850 (1958), page 17.
- 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).
