Orange County Indexed
Will of Adam Smith
Will Book D, page 59 · dated 2 April 1798 · proved February 1802
Adam Smith named his wife and unnamed children, divided two plantations, and appointed two executors.
- Kind of paper
- Will
- Testator
- Adam Smith (printed ADAM SMITH)
- Dated
- 2 April 1798
- Proved
- February 1802 court
- Family named
- Elizabeth (wife)
- Executors
- David Thornbury (both living in Guilford County); George Brown (both living in Guilford County)
- Witnesses
- Adam Smith; Martin Strother; David Coble
- Land
- one on which I now live containing about 197 acres; another in Rowan County containing about 200 acres
- Places
- Rowan County
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 59.
- 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).
