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Orange County Indexed

Bond: Robert Harris to Richard Umstead

Will Book D, page 547 · dated 20 January 1818 · proved February 1818

Robert Harris and Wm. Montgomery made a bond to Richard Umstead concerning Harris’s purchase of Richard’s interest in Jacob’s estate.

Kind of paper
Bond
Made by
Robert Harris (printed ROBERT HARRIS)
Dated
20 January 1818
Proved
February 1818 court
To
RICHARD UMSTEAD
Witnesses
Ezekiel Umstead; Jonathan Montgomery
Also named
Jacob (his brother; 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 547.
  • Abstract: Ruth Herndon Shields, Abstracts of Wills Recorded in Orange County, North Carolina, 1800–1850 (1958), page 84.
  • Microfilm at the Orange County Public Library, Wall Local History Collection: reel 80002, “Record of Wills, 1794–1822, Vols. C, D” (State Archives film).
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