Orange County Indexed
Will of Richard Bird
Will Book E, page 202 · dated 3 August 1824 · proved November 1829
Richard Bird named his wife, two daughters, three sons, and underage granddaughter Nancy Bird and appointed James and Samuel executors.
- Kind of paper
- Will
- Testator
- Richard Bird (printed RICHARD BIRD)
- Dated
- 3 August 1824
- Proved
- November 1829 court
- Family named
- Rachel (wife); Thomas Bird (my son; deceased); Samuel (son); James (son); Empson Bird (son); Catherine Kimbrough (daughter); Elizabeth Florence (daughter); Nancy Bird (my granddaughter, daughter of my son Thomas Bird; under age)
- Executors
- James (son); Samuel (son)
- Witnesses
- Thomas Reeves; John 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 202.
- Abstract: Ruth Herndon Shields, Abstracts of Wills Recorded in Orange County, North Carolina, 1800–1850 (1958), page 134.
- 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).
