Orange County Indexed
Will of Enoch Bradley
Will Book D, page 11 · dated 9 November 1800 · proved November 1800
Enoch Bradley named his wife, siblings, numerous nieces and nephews and two other beneficiaries and appointed James Newlin sole executor.
- Kind of paper
- Will
- Testator
- Enoch Bradley (printed ENOCH BRADLEY), Blacksmith.
- Dated
- 9 November 1800
- Proved
- November 1800 court
- In the court minutes
- Family named
- Rachel Bradley (wife); Mary Jackson (sisters or brother); Ann Hill (sisters or brother); Charles Bradley (sisters or brother); Elizabeth Collin (sisters or brother); George (brother Charles Bradley’s 3 sons); Enoch (brother Charles Bradley’s 3 sons); Josiah (brother Charles Bradley’s 3 sons); Jain Morgan (sister Mary’s 6 children); Baldwin (sister Mary’s 6 children); Ruth (sister Mary’s 6 children); John (sister Mary’s 6 children); Sarah (sister Mary’s 6 children); Deborah (sister Mary’s 6 children); Elizabeth (sister Ann Hill’s 3 children); Hannah (sister Ann Hill’s 3 children); Samuel (sister Ann Hill’s 3 children); John (sister Elizabeth Collin’s children); Catherine (sister Elizabeth Collin’s children); Enoch (sister Elizabeth Collin’s children); Mary (sister Elizabeth Collin’s children); Brice (sister Elizabeth Collin’s children); Elizabeth (sister Elizabeth Collin’s children); Jain (sister Elizabeth Collin’s children); Joseph (sister Elizabeth Collin’s children); Margaret (sister Elizabeth Collin’s children)
- Also left something
- Enoch (Nathaniel Carter’s son); Enoch (Robert Green’s son)
- Executor
- James Newlin
- Witnesses
- George Maden; John Newlin
- Also named
- Nathaniel Carter (father of beneficiary); Robert Green (father of beneficiary)
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 11.
- 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).
