Orange County Indexed
Will of Richard Cate
Will Book D, page 304 · dated 26 March 1806 · proved May 1806
Richard Cate named Elizabeth and five children and left land to Abner; Ephriam and Abner were executors.
- Kind of paper
- Will
- Testator
- Richard Cate (printed RICHARD CATE)
- Dated
- 26 March 1806
- Proved
- May 1806 court
- Family named
- Elizabeth (wife); Abner Cate (son); John Cate (son); Ephriam Cate (son); Ephriam (son); Abner (son); Mary Hunt (daughter); Nancy Dossett (daughter)
- Executors
- Ephriam (son); Abner (son)
- Witnesses
- James Latta; Shardick (x) Channeller
- Land
- land where he is settled
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 304.
- Abstract: Ruth Herndon Shields, Abstracts of Wills Recorded in Orange County, North Carolina, 1800–1850 (1958), page 46.
- 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).
