Orange County Indexed
Will of Andrew Brooks
Will Book D, page 328 · dated 16 December 1811 · proved February 1812
Andrew Brooks provided for his unnamed mother, sisters and other beneficiaries; he left household furnishings to Nelly Bryant.
- Kind of paper
- Will
- Testator
- Andrew Brooks (printed ANDREW BROOKS)
- Dated
- 16 December 1811
- Proved
- February 1812 court
- In the court minutes
- Family named
- Hannah (sister); Sally Terrill (sister); William Brook (my brother); James Brooks (son of my sister Hannah)
- Also left something
- Nelly Bryant
- Money and goods
- all household furniture and bedding
- Also named
- Joseph Terrill (parent of unnamed children)
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 328.
- Abstract: Ruth Herndon Shields, Abstracts of Wills Recorded in Orange County, North Carolina, 1800–1850 (1958), page 49.
- 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).
