Orange County Indexed
Will of James Bird
Will Book D, page 155 · dated 24 October 1793 · proved August 1805
James Bird left land to youngest son Thomas Bird and divided movable estate among children; sons Richard and Empson Bird were executors.
- Kind of paper
- Will
- Testator
- James Bird (printed JAMES BIRD)
- Dated
- 24 October 1793
- Proved
- August 1805 court
- Family named
- Thomas Bird (youngest son); Richard (son); Empson Bird (son); Richard (my children); Empson (my children); Thomas (my children); Sarah (my children); Mary (my children); Susanna (my children); Catherine (my children)
- Executors
- Richard (son); Empson Bird (son)
- Witnesses
- Alex. Mebane; Jas. Mebane, Jun'r
- Land
- all my land I now possess
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 155.
- Abstract: Ruth Herndon Shields, Abstracts of Wills Recorded in Orange County, North Carolina, 1800–1850 (1958), page 25.
- 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).
