Will of Barnard Cate

Barnard Cate provided for his wife, daughters, sons, and grandchildren and appointed three executors.

Kind of paper

Will

Testator

Barnard Cate (printed BARNARD CATE)

Dated

3 March 1824

Proved

November 1826 court

Family named

Jane (wife); Joseph (son); Bernard (son); David (son); Thomas (son); Rebecca Cate (daughter); Ann Cate (daughter); Mary Cate (daughter); Sarah Cate (daughter); Jean Cate (daughter); Rosannah Cate (daughter); Joel (grandson, sons of Joseph); Joshua (grandson, sons of Joseph); David (son Bernard's heir); James (son David's two sons); Sanders (son David's two sons); Joseph (son Thomas' two sons); Vinson (son Thomas' two sons)

Executors

John Sykes; Robert Hastings; Wm. Thompson

Witnesses

John Workman; Wm. Workman; W. Thompson

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, pages 134–136.
• Abstract: Ruth Herndon Shields, Abstracts of Wills Recorded in Orange County, North Carolina, 1800–1850 (1958), page 123.
• 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).