Orange County Indexed
Will of Elizabeth (x) Brewer
Will Book E, page 220 · dated 25 September 1827 · proved May 1830
Elizabeth Brewer named two nieces, two brothers, and sister Rebeckah Hopson and appointed Thomas Snipes executor.
- Kind of paper
- Will
- Testator
- Elizabeth (x) Brewer (printed ELIZABETH (x) BREWER)
- Dated
- 25 September 1827
- Proved
- May 1830 court
- Family named
- Ezekiel Brewer (brother); Thomas Brewer (brother); Rebeckah Hopson (sister); Betsy Oldham (niece); Mary Ann Bracher ? (niece)
- Executor
- Thomas Snipes (friend; of Chatham County)
- Witnesses
- W. S. Snipes; George W. Morrow
- In the paper’s words
- “old and infirm”
Reading note: Shields questions niece Mary Ann Bracher ?.
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 220.
- Abstract: Ruth Herndon Shields, Abstracts of Wills Recorded in Orange County, North Carolina, 1800–1850 (1958), page 137.
- 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).
