Orange County Indexed
Will of James (x) Currey
Will Book D, page 137 · dated 20 December 1800 · proved August 1804
James Currey provided for his unnamed wife, sons James and John, and three unnamed single daughters; wife and son James were executors.
- Kind of paper
- Will
- Testator
- James (x) Currey (printed JAMES (x) CURREY)
- Dated
- 20 December 1800
- Proved
- August 1804 court
- Family named
- James (son); John (son)
- Executor
- James (son)
- Witnesses
- Silus Forest; Isaac Jones; James Currey
- Land
- land joining Chisenhall’s line
- Also named
- Chisenhall (land joining)
- 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 137.
- Abstract: Ruth Herndon Shields, Abstracts of Wills Recorded in Orange County, North Carolina, 1800–1850 (1958), page 22.
- 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).
