Orange County Indexed
Will of Simpson (x) Tait
Will Book D, page 129 · dated 2 April 1804 · proved May 1804
Simpson Tait named wife Catherine Tait and son Zacheus Tait; friend Anthony Tait and wife Catherine were executors.
- Kind of paper
- Will
- Testator
- Simpson (x) Tait (printed SIMPSON (x) TAIT)
- Dated
- 2 April 1804
- Proved
- May 1804 court
- Family named
- Catherine Tait (wife); Catherine (wife); Zacheus Tait (son)
- Executors
- Anthony Tait (well beloved friend); Catherine (wife)
- Witnesses
- Edmond Gilam; Wm. Street; Joseph Street, Senior
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 129.
- Abstract: Ruth Herndon Shields, Abstracts of Wills Recorded in Orange County, North Carolina, 1800–1850 (1958), page 21.
- 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).
