Orange County Indexed
Will of Phebe (x) Grimes
Will Book D, page 52 · dated 14 July 1801 · proved August 1801
Phebe Grimes named six children and Rebekah and appointed her daughter and Thomas Wilson executors.
- Kind of paper
- Will
- Testator
- Phebe (x) Grimes (printed PHEBE (x) GRIMES)
- Dated
- 14 July 1801
- Proved
- August 1801 court
- Family named
- James Grimes (son; eldest); Charles Grimes (son); Elizabeth Grimes (eldest daughter); Phebe Grimes (daughter); Lydia Grimes (daughter); Ann Grimes (daughter)
- Also left something
- Rebekah
- Executors
- Elizabeth Grimes (daughter); Thomas Wilson
- Witnesses
- John Latta; Caleb Wilson
- Money and goods
- 5 shillings
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 52.
- Abstract: Ruth Herndon Shields, Abstracts of Wills Recorded in Orange County, North Carolina, 1800–1850 (1958), page 6.
- 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).
