Orange County Indexed
Will of Joseph Barber
Will Book D, page 83 · dated 20 June 1802 · proved November 1802
Joseph Barber named his wife and two minor children, provided schooling, and appointed two executors.
- Kind of paper
- Will
- Testator
- Joseph Barber (printed JOSEPH BARBER)
- Dated
- 20 June 1802
- Proved
- November 1802 court
- A second reading
- Mark Chilton’s index of the will books gives the testator as Joseph Barker. Check the will book to settle it.
- Family named
- Marjary Barber (wife); David (my two children; under age; to be schooled); Elizabeth Barber (my two children; under age; to be schooled); Matthew Barber (my brother); Sarah Moore (my stepdaughter; in the Western Territory)
- Executors
- Marjary Barber (wife); Matthew Barber (my brother)
- Witnesses
- Jas. Boyle; Jean Barber; W.F.Thompson
- Places
- Western Territory
Reading note: Children surname printed only after Elizabeth; retained as printed.
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 83.
- Abstract: Ruth Herndon Shields, Abstracts of Wills Recorded in Orange County, North Carolina, 1800–1850 (1958), page 12.
- 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).
