Orange County Indexed
Will of Mary Woods
Will Book D, page 514 · dated 25 February 1817 · proved November 1817
Mary Woods divided her estate between niece Emeline Dortch and three other nieces; Duncan Cameron was executor.
- Kind of paper
- Will
- Testator
- Mary Woods (printed MARY WOODS)
- Dated
- 25 February 1817
- Proved
- November 1817 court
- In the court minutes
- Family named
- Emeline Dortch (niece; under age); Sally Dortch (niece); Polly Dortch (niece); Lucy Dortch (niece)
- Executor
- Duncan Cameron
- Witnesses
- James ? Kelly, Senior; Hugh Cain, Junior
Reading note: James ? Kelly 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 514.
- Abstract: Ruth Herndon Shields, Abstracts of Wills Recorded in Orange County, North Carolina, 1800–1850 (1958), page 78.
- 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).
