Orange County Indexed
Will of Alexander (x) Robbs
Will Book D, page 215 · dated 18 October 1806 · proved February 1807
Alexander Robbs left his estate to Benjamin Cantril, who was to free the enslaved Peter after ten years.
- Kind of paper
- Will
- Testator
- Alexander (x) Robbs (printed ALEXANDER (x) ROBBS)
- Dated
- 18 October 1806
- Proved
- February 1807 court
- A second reading
- Mark Chilton’s index of the will books gives the probate as November 1806. Check the will book to settle it.
- In the court minutes
- Also left something
- Benjamin Cantril
- Witnesses
- Hardy Hurdle; John Layne
- Enslaved people named
- Peter (to be freed later; to Benjamin Cantril)
- In the records of enslaved people
- Peter (this paper)
Reading note: Probate term questioned on page.
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 215.
- Abstract: Ruth Herndon Shields, Abstracts of Wills Recorded in Orange County, North Carolina, 1800–1850 (1958), page 35.
- 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).
