Orange County Indexed
Will of James (x) Linch
Will Book D, page 130 · dated 17 November 1803 · proved May 1804
James Linch named wife Jean, William Hughes, and three minor children; his wife and her brother James Hutcheson were executors.
- Kind of paper
- Will
- Testator
- James (x) Linch (printed JAMES (x) LINCH)
- Dated
- 17 November 1803
- Proved
- May 1804 court
- In the court minutes
- Family named
- Jean Linch (wife); Elizabeth Linch (my three children; All three are under age); James Linch (my three children; All three are under age); Aron Linch (my three children; All three are under age)
- Also left something
- William Hughes
- Executor
- James Hutcheson (her brother)
- Witnesses
- Anth. Lovins; John (x) McCrory ?
- In the paper’s words
- “very sick”
Reading note: John (x) McCrory ? uncertain 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 D, page 130.
- 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).
