Orange County Indexed
Will of Samuel Chambers
Will Book D, page 251 · dated 9 May 1809 · proved August 1809
Samuel Chambers provided for his wife and children and left purchased land to sons; Sarah and Owen Lindley were executors.
- Kind of paper
- Will
- Testator
- Samuel Chambers (printed SAMUEL CHAMBERS)
- Dated
- 9 May 1809
- Proved
- August 1809 court
- Family named
- Sarah (wife); James Chambers (son); Samuel (son); William (son); Mary Chambers (daughter); Elizabeth Railey (daughter); Hannah Lindley (daughter); Grace Lindley (daughter)
- Executors
- Sarah (wife); Owen Lindley
- Witnesses
- John Thompson; Bennett Watson ?
- Land
- land I purchased of John Railey
- Money and goods
- James Chambers $1
- Also named
- John Railey (former land owner)
Reading note: Bennett Watson ? 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 251.
- Abstract: Ruth Herndon Shields, Abstracts of Wills Recorded in Orange County, North Carolina, 1800–1850 (1958), page 39.
- 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).
