Will of Samuel Byrd

Samuel Byrd arranged for sister Caty Kimbrough to raise daughter Susannah and provided for siblings, in-laws, and niece Mary.

Kind of paper

Will

Testator

Samuel Byrd (printed SAMUEL BYRD)

Dated

9 September 1828

Proved

February 1829 court

Family named

Susannah Byrd (my daughter); Caty Kimbrough (my sister); Thomas Bird (my brother); James Bird (brothers and sister); Empson Bird (brothers and sister); Elizabeth Flowrence (brothers and sister); Mary (my brother Thomas Bird's daughter); Rebeckah (my two sisters-in-law); Polly (my two sisters-in-law); George (two brothers-in-law); John Miller (two brothers-in-law)

Executors

Thomas Lynch; Gabriel B. Lea

Witnesses

Gabriel B. Lea; Thomas Bird, Sr.

Money and goods

$50

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 178.
• Abstract: Ruth Herndon Shields, Abstracts of Wills Recorded in Orange County, North Carolina, 1800–1850 (1958), page 131.
• 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).