Orange County Indexed
Will of Jacob Umstead
Will Book D, page 495 · dated 2 March 1816 · proved November 1816
Jacob Umstead provided for his mother, her daughter Jane and brothers David and John; Elisha Umstead was executor.
- Kind of paper
- Will
- Testator
- Jacob Umstead (printed JACOB UMSTEAD)
- Dated
- 2 March 1816
- Proved
- November 1816 court
- In the court minutes
- Family named
- Jane (her daughter); David (my brother); John (my brother)
- Executor
- Elisha Umstead
- Witness
- Thornton McFarling
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 495.
- Abstract: Ruth Herndon Shields, Abstracts of Wills Recorded in Orange County, North Carolina, 1800–1850 (1958), page 74.
- 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).
