Orange County Indexed
Will of Joseph Woody
Will Book D, page 425 · dated 14 July 1814 · proved February 1815
Joseph Woody named Sarah and sons and acknowledged bound servant Patsey Jones; Joshua and Joseph Woody were executors.
- Kind of paper
- Will
- Testator
- Joseph Woody (printed JOSEPH WOODY)
- Dated
- 14 July 1814
- Proved
- February 1815 court
- Family named
- Sarah Woody (wife); Joshua Woody (son); Joseph Woody (son); Robert Woody (son); Joshua (son)
- Also left something
- Patsey Jones (which was bound to me)
- Executors
- Joshua (son); Joseph Woody (son)
- Witnesses
- John Whitted; Thomas Whitted, Jun’r
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 425.
- 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).
