Will of Hugh Montgomery

Hugh Montgomery named wife Rebecca, sons, daughter Lydia Woods, and additional beneficiaries receiving one dollar at twenty-one.

Kind of paper

Will

Testator

Hugh Montgomery (printed HUGH MONTGOMERY)

Dated

8 December 1825

Proved

August 1830 court

Family named

Rebecca (wife); James (son); Alexander (son); William (son); Lydia Woods (daughter wife of Alfred Woods); Alfred Woods

Also left something

Hambleton (as they arrive to age 21); James (as they arrive to age 21); Alexander (as they arrive to age 21); Hugh (as they arrive to age 21)

Executors

Rebecca (wife); Thomas Holden (friend)

Witnesses

Eli Woods; John Woods

Money and goods

$1; one dollar

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 226.
• Abstract: Ruth Herndon Shields, Abstracts of Wills Recorded in Orange County, North Carolina, 1800–1850 (1958), page 139.
• 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).