Orange County Indexed
Will of James Wood
Will Book D, page 564 · dated 25 August 1819 · proved November 1819
James Wood named children and their spouses and appointed Willie Wood and John J. Latta executors.
- Kind of paper
- Will
- Testator
- James Wood (printed JAMES WOOD)
- Dated
- 25 August 1819
- Proved
- November 1819 court
- A second reading
- Mark Chilton’s index of the will books gives the probate as August 1819. Check the will book to settle it.
- Family named
- Willie Wood (son); Betsy Latta (daughter); Nancy Lewis (daughter); Sally Wallace (daughter); Polly Chisenhall (daughter); John J. Latta (husband of daughter); Fielding Lewis (husband of daughter); Owen Wallace (husband of daughter); Delancy Chisenhall (husband of Polly Chisenhall)
- Executors
- Willie Wood (son); John J. Latta
- Witnesses
- Frederick Moize; Marstain (x) Crotckett ?
Reading note: Witness Marstain (x) Crotckett ? questioned on page.
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 564.
- Abstract: Ruth Herndon Shields, Abstracts of Wills Recorded in Orange County, North Carolina, 1800–1850 (1958), page 87.
- 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).
