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Orange County Indexed

Power of attorney: Patsey (x) Rhodes to Acquilla Rhodes

Will Book D, page 389 · dated 15 May 1813 · proved November 1813

Patsey Rhodes authorized her father Acquilla Rhodes to collect money owed by William Barbee.

Kind of paper
Power of attorney
Made by
Patsey (x) Rhodes (printed PATSEY (x) RHODES)
Dated
15 May 1813
Proved
November 1813 court
To
ACQUILLA RHODES (her father)
Witnesses
Mann Patterson; David (x) Hinchey
Also named
William Barbee (debtor)

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 389.
  • Abstract: Ruth Herndon Shields, Abstracts of Wills Recorded in Orange County, North Carolina, 1800–1850 (1958), page 57.
  • 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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