Orange County Indexed
Will of Mary (x) Bird
Will Book D, page 429 · dated 18 April 1815 · proved May 1815
Mary Bird named son John and unnamed daughters and appointed John sole executor.
- Kind of paper
- Will
- Testator
- Mary (x) Bird (printed MARY (x) BIRD)
- Dated
- 18 April 1815
- Proved
- May 1815 court
- Family named
- John (son)
- Executor
- John (son)
- Witnesses
- I or J Mebane; Alfred Compton; Jno. Umstead
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 429.
- Abstract: Ruth Herndon Shields, Abstracts of Wills Recorded in Orange County, North Carolina, 1800–1850 (1958), page 63.
- 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).
