Orange County Indexed
Will of Benjamin (x) Wheeley
Will Book E, page 174 · dated 10 March 1823 · proved February 1829
Benjamin Wheeley named his wife and five of seven children and appointed sons Benjamin and Philip executors.
- Kind of paper
- Will
- Testator
- Benjamin (x) Wheeley (printed BENJAMIN (x) WHEELEY)
- Dated
- 10 March 1823
- Proved
- February 1829 court
- Family named
- Dorothy (wife); Benjamin Wheeley (son); Philip Wheeley (son); Benjamin (son); Philip (son); Susannah Wheeley (daughter); Dorothy Wheeley (daughter); Betsey Wheeley (daughter)
- Executors
- Benjamin (son); Philip (son)
- Witnesses
- Edward Eubanks; James (x) Blackwell
- 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, page 174.
- Abstract: Ruth Herndon Shields, Abstracts of Wills Recorded in Orange County, North Carolina, 1800–1850 (1958), page 130.
- 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).
