Orange County Indexed
Will of William Hobbs, Senior
Will Book D, pages 421–423 · dated 24 November 1814 · proved February 1815
William Hobbs named Easther and children and gave small legacies; Easther Hobbs and Thomas Latta were executors.
- Kind of paper
- Will
- Testator
- William Hobbs, Senior (printed WILLIAM HOBBS, SENIOR)
- Dated
- 24 November 1814
- Proved
- February 1815 court
- Family named
- Easther (wife); Easther Hobbs (wife); James Hobbs (son); Thomas Hobbs (son); William Hobbs (son); Jonathan (son); David (son); John (son); Harbard Hobbs (son); Mary Cheek (daughter); Elizabeth Chambers (daughter); Susannah Hobbs (daughter); Thomas Durham (son-in-law)
- Executors
- Easther Hobbs (wife); Thomas Latta (trusty friend)
- Witnesses
- Andrew Watson; Joseph (x) Weeks
- Money and goods
- $1 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, pages 421–423.
- Abstract: Ruth Herndon Shields, Abstracts of Wills Recorded in Orange County, North Carolina, 1800–1850 (1958), page 62.
- 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).
