Orange County Indexed
Will of John Barbee
Will Book D, page 535 · dated 10 July 1818 · proved August 1818
John Barbee named Esther and children, allocated land and cash, and appointed Zachariah Herndon and King Barbee executors.
- Kind of paper
- Will
- Testator
- John Barbee (printed JOHN BARBEE)
- Dated
- 10 July 1818
- Proved
- August 1818 court
- Family named
- Esther (wife); King Barbee (son); Reuben Barbee (son); Zachariah (son); John (son); Gray (son); Sally (daughter); Elizabeth (daughter; under age)
- Executors
- Zachariah Herndon (worthy friend, actually his wife’s brother); King Barbee
- Witnesses
- Zach. Herndon; William Hall; John Herndon
- Land
- 160 acres where I now live; 100 acres ... joining Bilbo and others
- Money and goods
- $1
- Also named
- Bilbo (adjoining owner)
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 535.
- Abstract: Ruth Herndon Shields, Abstracts of Wills Recorded in Orange County, North Carolina, 1800–1850 (1958), page 82.
- 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).
