Will of William (x) Woods

William Woods named his mother and siblings and left an inherited money interest to brother-in-law Eli Woods.

Kind of paper

Will

Testator

William (x) Woods (printed WILLIAM (x) WOODS)

Dated

5 June 1818

Proved

February 1819 court

Family named

Elinor Woods (mother); Margaret Hopkins (sister); Hugh Woods (brother); Eli Woods (brother); Lucy Woods (my late sister; deceased); Eli Woods (brother-in-law, husband of my late sister Lucy Woods); Hugh Woods (our grandfather)

Witnesses

Wm. Baldwin; Hugh Montgomery; Joseph Woods

Money and goods

$1

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 556.
• Abstract: Ruth Herndon Shields, Abstracts of Wills Recorded in Orange County, North Carolina, 1800–1850 (1958), page 86.
• 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).