Orange County Indexed
Will of Mary Wortham
Will Book E, page 174 · dated 19 September 1827 · proved November 1828
Mary Wortham left all her estate to daughter Elizabeth Wilson and appointed son-in-law Samuel Wilson sole executor.
- Kind of paper
- Will
- Testator
- Mary Wortham (printed MARY WORTHAM)
- Dated
- 19 September 1827
- Proved
- November 1828 court
- Family named
- Elizabeth Wilson (daughter); Samuel Wilson (son-in-law)
- Executor
- Samuel Wilson (son-in-law)
- Witnesses
- Joseph Armstrong Jr; John Wilson; Peggy Armstrong
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).
