Orange County Indexed
Will of Joseph Tate
Will Book E, page 105 · dated 11 November 1825 · proved February 1826
Joseph Tate named Mary and eight children and made Griffith’s legacy conditional on returning to the county; William and Robert were executors.
- Kind of paper
- Will
- Testator
- Joseph Tate (printed JOSEPH TATE)
- Dated
- 11 November 1825
- Proved
- February 1826 court
- Family named
- Mary (wife); Griffith Tate (son); James (son); Joseph (son); William (son); Robert (son); Polly (daughter); Alice (daughter); Elizabeth Taylor (daughter)
- Executors
- William (son); Robert (son)
- Witnesses
- John Hughes; William Gattis
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 E, page 105.
- Abstract: Ruth Herndon Shields, Abstracts of Wills Recorded in Orange County, North Carolina, 1800–1850 (1958), page 118.
- 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 80003, “Record of Wills, 1822–1851, Vols. E, F” (State Archives film).
