Orange County Indexed
Will of Zephaniah Tate
Will Book D, page 461 · dated 19 February 1816 · proved February 1816
Zephaniah Tate named Hannah and minor daughter Polly and appointed Anthony Tate executor.
- Kind of paper
- Will
- Testator
- Zephaniah Tate (printed ZEPHANIAH TATE)
- Dated
- 19 February 1816
- Proved
- February 1816 court
- Family named
- Hannah (wife); Polly Tate (daughter; under age)
- Executor
- Anthony Tate (worthy friend)
- Witnesses
- Jno. McMullan; John Hevy ?
Reading note: John Hevy ? questioned on page.
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 461.
- Abstract: Ruth Herndon Shields, Abstracts of Wills Recorded in Orange County, North Carolina, 1800–1850 (1958), page 68.
- 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).
