Orange County Indexed
Will of Richard Williams
Will Book D, page 57 · dated 27 July 1801 · proved February 1802
Richard Williams named his wife and seven children, devised land and Pennsylvania money, and appointed his wife and son executors.
- Kind of paper
- Will
- Testator
- Richard Williams (printed RICHARD WILLIAMS)
- Dated
- 27 July 1801
- Proved
- February 1802 court
- In the court minutes
- Family named
- Rachel (Wife); James (son); John Williams (son); James Williams (son); Hester (daughter); Martha (daughter); Rachel (daughter); Ann (daughter); Rebeckah (daughter); John Wilkerson (husband of Rebeckah)
- Executors
- Rachel (wife); James Williams (son)
- Witnesses
- Isaac Jackson; Owbert ? Faucett
- Land
- 302 acres of land
- Money and goods
- £113 money due him
- Places
- Pennsylvania
Reading note: Source questions witness Owbert ? Faucett.
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 57.
- Abstract: Ruth Herndon Shields, Abstracts of Wills Recorded in Orange County, North Carolina, 1800–1850 (1958), page 8.
- 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).
