Orange County Indexed
Will of William Rhodes
Will Book D, page 293 · dated 16 September 1802 · proved February 1804
William Rhodes named Mary, three sons and eight daughters and appointed four executors, including a grandson.
- Kind of paper
- Will
- Testator
- William Rhodes (printed WILLIAM RHODES)
- Dated
- 16 September 1802
- Proved
- February 1804 court
- In the court minutes
- Family named
- Mary Rhodes (wife); Benjamin Baker Rhodes (son); John Rhodes (son); William Rhodes (son); Hannah Wotle (Whatley ?) (these eight daughters; have already received their parts); Nanny Grism (these eight daughters; have already received their parts); Elizabeth Grisum (these eight daughters; have already received their parts); Molly Pattishall (these eight daughters; have already received their parts); Michel Horn (these eight daughters; have already received their parts); Amelia Herndon (these eight daughters; have already received their parts); Rebecca Herndon (these eight daughters; have already received their parts); Franky Barbee (these eight daughters; have already received their parts)
- Executors
- Chesley Page Patterson; John Rhodes; Benj. Baker Rhodes; John (Benjamin Rhodes’ son)
- Witnesses
- James Wilson; William Herndon; Henry (x) Trice; James Hutchins
Reading note: Hannah Wotle (Whatley ?) questioned; spelling Grism distinct from Grisum.
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 293.
- Abstract: Ruth Herndon Shields, Abstracts of Wills Recorded in Orange County, North Carolina, 1800–1850 (1958), page 45.
- 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).
