Orange County Indexed
Will of Lazarus (x) Cate
Will Book D, page 89 · dated 4 September 1802 · proved February 1803
Lazarus Cate named his wife and five sons and appointed two executors.
- Kind of paper
- Will
- Testator
- Lazarus (x) Cate (printed LAZARUS (x) CATE)
- Dated
- 4 September 1802
- Proved
- February 1803 court
- Family named
- Margaret (wife); William (my five sons); John (my five sons); Isaiah (my five sons); Thomas (my five sons); Benjamin Cate (my five sons)
- Executors
- Culbird ? Burton; Henry Bunch
- Witnesses
- Culbird (x) Burton; Henry Bunch; Christian (his mark x) Burton
Reading note: Sons surname printed only after Benjamin; source questions Culbird ? Burton.
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 89.
- Abstract: Ruth Herndon Shields, Abstracts of Wills Recorded in Orange County, North Carolina, 1800–1850 (1958), page 14.
- 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).
