Orange County Indexed
Will of James Rodgers
Will Book D, page 194 · dated 18 December 1806 · proved May 1807
James Rodgers provided for his unnamed wife and children and left land to sons; his brother and wife were executors.
- Kind of paper
- Will
- Testator
- James Rodgers (printed JAMES RODGERS)
- Dated
- 18 December 1806
- Proved
- May 1807 court
- Family named
- John (son); James (son); William (son); Jean (my daughters); Ann Nelson (my daughters); Polly (my daughters; youngest); William Rodgers (brother)
- Executor
- William Rodgers (brother)
- Witnesses
- J. Scott; James Partin
- Land
- 140 acres joining the line of Ceason ? Capps; 150 acres
- Also named
- Ceason ? Capps (adjoining owner); George Fost (adjoining owner)
Reading note: Ceason ? Capps questioned; daughter names have no separating punctuation and are recorded 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 194.
- Abstract: Ruth Herndon Shields, Abstracts of Wills Recorded in Orange County, North Carolina, 1800–1850 (1958), page 32.
- 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).
