Orange County Indexed
Will of Richard (x) Marcum
Will Book E, page 205 · dated 20 August 1829 · proved November 1829
Richard Marcum distributed land to five sons and named wife Anna and two daughters.
- Kind of paper
- Will
- Testator
- Richard (x) Marcum (printed RICHARD (x) MARCUM)
- Dated
- 20 August 1829
- Proved
- November 1829 court
- Family named
- Anna (wife); Wilie (son); William (son); John (son); Spencer (son); Aaron (son); Cynthia (daughter; unmarried); Polly Sorrell (daughter)
- Executors
- Thomas Bilbo (worthy friends); John Bilbo (worthy friends)
- Witnesses
- William B. Williams; John D. Carlton
- Land
- tract he now lives on; land where my father lived and died; plantation I now live on
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 205.
- Abstract: Ruth Herndon Shields, Abstracts of Wills Recorded in Orange County, North Carolina, 1800–1850 (1958), page 135.
- 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).
