Orange County Indexed
Will of Joshua (x) Horne, Sr.
Will Book E, page 207 · dated 28 May 1829 · proved November 1829
Joshua Horne left all land to sons John and Joshua and five shillings each to five daughters, naming wife Mikey.
- Kind of paper
- Will
- Testator
- Joshua (x) Horne, Sr. (printed JOSHUA (x) HORNE, SR.)
- Dated
- 28 May 1829
- Proved
- November 1829 court
- Family named
- Mikey (wife); Michel Rhodes (She was); John (son); Joshua (son); Milly Redding (daughter); Alsey Cates (daughter); Viney Hinchey ? (daughter); Betsy Brockwell (daughter); Polly Neel (daughter)
- Executor
- James Rainey (friend)
- Witnesses
- Pleasant Rhodes; Young E. Rainey
- Land
- all my land
- Money and goods
- 5 shillings each
- In the paper’s words
- “very weak”
Reading note: Shields questions Viney Hinchey ?.
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 207.
- 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).
