Orange County Indexed
Will of Jacob Riley, Sr.
Will Book D, page 365 · dated 13 August 1812
Jacob Riley divided plantation and goods between Jacob and Susanna and gave other children small sums; Peter and Jacob Riley were executors.
- Kind of paper
- Will
- Testator
- Jacob Riley, Sr. (printed JACOB RILEY, SR.)
- Dated
- 13 August 1812
- Proved
- Date not given
- Family named
- Jacob Riley (son); Peter Riley (son); John Riley (son); Peter (son); Susanna Riley (daughter); Caty Findly (daughter); Mary Gray (daughter); Jacob Findly (husband of daughter); James Gray (husband of daughter)
- Executors
- Peter (son); Jacob Riley (son)
- Witness
- James Webb
- Land
- plantation
- Money and goods
- money, furniture, etc.; 1 shilling each
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 365.
- Abstract: Ruth Herndon Shields, Abstracts of Wills Recorded in Orange County, North Carolina, 1800–1850 (1958), page 53.
- 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).
