Orange County Indexed
Will of William Forsythe
Will Book D, page 560 · dated 14 January 1819 · proved May 1819
William Forsythe named Ma and children, left landed estate to sons, and placed John’s property under lifelong trusteeship and guardianship.
- Kind of paper
- Will
- Testator
- William Forsythe (printed WILLIAM FORSYTHE)
- Dated
- 14 January 1819
- Proved
- May 1819 court
- Family named
- Ma (wife); John (son); Barnet (son); Barnet Forsythe (son); Anna Bailey (mother of children beneficiaries); Anna (daughter); James (my children); Barnet (my children); John (my children); Margaret (my children); Gilla (my children)
- Executors
- Barnet Forsythe (son); William McCauley (friend)
- Guardians
- Thomas Snipes (friends; for my son John and his property for life); Elijah Graves (friends; for my son John and his property for life)
- Trustees
- Thomas Snipes (friends; for my son John and his property for life); Elijah Graves (friends; for my son John and his property for life)
- Witnesses
- Jno. Caruthers; Archibald Durham
- Land
- landed estate
- Money and goods
- $10
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 560.
- 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).
