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Orange County Indexed

Will of Worham Glen

Will Book D, page 262 · dated 14 August 1809 · proved February 1810

Worham Glen named his wife and seven children and appointed Fery Glen and David Glen executors.

Kind of paper
Will
Testator
Worham Glen (printed WORHAM GLEN)
Dated
14 August 1809
Proved
February 1810 court
Family named
Nanny Glen (wife); Firy ? Glen (my children); James Glen (my children); David Glen (my children); Nancy Wood (my children); John Glen (my children); Robert Glen (my children); Sally Garrard (my children)
Executors
Fery ? Glen; David Glen
Witnesses
Thos. Reavis; Sally (x) Scoggins

Reading note: Firy ? Glen and Fery ? Glen retain distinct printed spellings and question marks.

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 262.
  • Abstract: Ruth Herndon Shields, Abstracts of Wills Recorded in Orange County, North Carolina, 1800–1850 (1958), page 41.
  • 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).
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