Orange County Indexed
Will of John Linch, Sr.
Will Book D, page 392 · dated 19 July 1809 · proved November 1813
John Linch left a plantation to Jackson and Cleaton, named other sons and daughters, and appointed James Latta and Jackson executors.
- Kind of paper
- Will
- Testator
- John Linch, Sr. (printed JOHN LINCH, SR.)
- Dated
- 19 July 1809
- Proved
- November 1813 court
- Family named
- Jackson Linch (son); Cleaton Linch (son); Darling Linch (son); John Linch (son); Rachel Linch (daughter); Gillee Linch (daughter); Sarah Jenkins (daughter); Olive Horner (daughter)
- Executors
- James Latta; Jackson Linch (son)
- Witnesses
- Henry Bunch; Rachel (x) Linch; Gillee (x) Linch
- Land
- plantation
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 392.
- Abstract: Ruth Herndon Shields, Abstracts of Wills Recorded in Orange County, North Carolina, 1800–1850 (1958), page 57.
- 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).
