Orange County Indexed
Will of Benjamin (x) Forrester
Will Book D, page 23 · dated 4 November 1800 · proved February 1801
Benjamin Forrester named his wife and nine children, ordered land sold, and appointed two friends executors.
- Kind of paper
- Will
- Testator
- Benjamin (x) Forrester (printed BENJAMIN (x) FORRESTER)
- Dated
- 4 November 1800
- Proved
- February 1801 court
- Family named
- Sarah (Wife); Ila (son); Edmund (son); Josiah (son); Benjamin (son); Jemimah Woods (daughter); Drucilla Dosset (daughter); Nancy (daughter); Betsy (daughter); Milly (daughter); Harris Woods (husband of daughter); William Dorset (husband of daughter)
- Executors
- James Woods (friends); Joseph Woods (friends)
- Witnesses
- Walter Alves; William Bennehan
- Land
- 50 acres of land joining George Carington and John Gains
- Money and goods
- 10 shillings
- Also named
- George Carington (adjoining landowner); John Gains (adjoining landowner)
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 23.
- Abstract: Ruth Herndon Shields, Abstracts of Wills Recorded in Orange County, North Carolina, 1800–1850 (1958).
- 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).
