Orange County Indexed
Will of William Bradford
Will Book E, page 14 · dated 28 December 1821 · proved May 1822
William Bradford named children and grandsons and appointed David and Robert Ray executors.
- Kind of paper
- Will
- Testator
- William Bradford (printed WILLIAM BRADFORD)
- Dated
- 28 December 1821
- Proved
- May 1822 court
- Family named
- Thomas (son); Joseph (son); David (son); Sarah McCauley (daughter); Elizabeth Douglas (daughter); Margaret Ray (daughter); Jane Ray (daughter); Hamilton (sons of daughter Sarah); Grandison (sons of daughter Sarah); Wm. (husband of Jane Ray)
- Executors
- David (son); Robert Ray
- Witnesses
- James Bradford; Thomas Reeves
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 14.
- Abstract: Ruth Herndon Shields, Abstracts of Wills Recorded in Orange County, North Carolina, 1800–1850 (1958), page 100.
- 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).
