Orange County Indexed
Will of Jesse (x) Rigsby
Will Book E, pages 148–149 · dated 19 February 1820 · proved November 1827
Jesse Rigsby left all his estate to wife Elizabeth and appointed her and Mark Pickett executors.
- Kind of paper
- Will
- Testator
- Jesse (x) Rigsby (printed JESSE (x) RIGSBY)
- Dated
- 19 February 1820
- Proved
- November 1827 court
- Family named
- Elizabeth (wife)
- Executors
- Elizabeth (wife); Mark Pickett (friend and relation)
- Witnesses
- C. P. Patterson; John Anderson
- In the paper’s words
- “weak in body”
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 148–149.
- Abstract: Ruth Herndon Shields, Abstracts of Wills Recorded in Orange County, North Carolina, 1800–1850 (1958), page 126.
- 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).
