Orange County Indexed
Will of Stephen White
Will Book D, page 544 · dated 6 January 1812 · proved August 1818
Stephen White provided creek lands to Ann and sons and gave cash to other relatives; David and Joseph White were executors.
- Kind of paper
- Will
- Testator
- Stephen White (printed STEPHEN WHITE)
- Dated
- 6 January 1812
- Proved
- August 1818 court
- Family named
- Ann (wife); Stephen White (son); John White (son); David (son); James (son); Samuel (son); Joseph (son); Joseph White (son); Samuel Mebane (son-in-law); William Hodge (son-in-law)
- Executors
- David (son); Joseph White (son)
- Witnesses
- James Palmer; Wm. Shaw; David Bryan
- Land
- land on waters of Back Creek and Haw River; land I now live on
- Money and goods
- $2 each; a mare
- Also named
- James Baldridge (heirs of; deceased)
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 544.
- Abstract: Ruth Herndon Shields, Abstracts of Wills Recorded in Orange County, North Carolina, 1800–1850 (1958), page 84.
- 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).
