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Orange County Indexed

Will of Solomon Booth

Will Book D, page 316 · dated 18 December 1810 · proved May 1811

Solomon Booth named his mother and brothers; brother Tapley Booth was executor.

Kind of paper
Will
Testator
Solomon Booth (printed SOLOMON BOOTH)
Dated
18 December 1810
Proved
May 1811 court
Family named
Priscilla Booth (mother); Alfred Booth (brother); Tapley Booth (brother)
Executor
Tapley Booth (brother)
Witnesses
John Moore; Sampson Moore; Betsey (x) Booth

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 316.
  • Abstract: Ruth Herndon Shields, Abstracts of Wills Recorded in Orange County, North Carolina, 1800–1850 (1958), page 47.
  • 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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