Orange County Indexed
Will of Benjamin Whidbee
Will Book D, page 558 · dated 14 March 1819 · proved May 1819
Benjamin Whidbee named Sally and minor son Joseph, mentioned other children, and appointed Sally and William Holt executors.
- Kind of paper
- Will
- Testator
- Benjamin Whidbee (printed BENJAMIN WHIDBEE)
- Dated
- 14 March 1819
- Proved
- May 1819 court
- Family named
- Sally (wife); Joseph (son; under age); William Holt (brother-in-law)
- Executors
- Sally (wife); William Holt (brother-in-law)
- Witnesses
- John Harden; Lewis Holt
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 558.
- 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).
