Orange County Indexed
Will of William Galbreath
Will Book D, page 18 · dated 4 January 1799 · proved August 1800
William Galbreath named children, sons-in-law and grandsons; no executor was named.
- Kind of paper
- Will
- Testator
- William Galbreath (printed WILLIAM GALBREATH)
- Dated
- 4 January 1799
- Proved
- August 1800 court
- In the court minutes
- Family named
- Walter (son); William (son; 2nd son); John (son; 3rd and youngest); Cathron (daughter; oldest; now MacKieney); Elizabeth (daughter; now Cunningham); Mary (daughter; now Dickson); Ann (daughter); Wm. McKieney (grandson); Wm. Dickson (grandson); Wm. Galbreath (grandson); Francis McKieney (son-in-law); Matthew Cunningham (son-in-law)
- Witnesses
- Mac Cunningham; Wm. Kirk
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 18.
- 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).
