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Orange County Indexed

Will of Solomon Wood

Will Book E, page 231 · dated 4 August 1830 · proved August 1830

Solomon Wood left his estate to wife Elizabeth for life and named Henry Wood, James Wood, and Ezekiel Haley.

Kind of paper
Will
Testator
Solomon Wood (printed SOLOMON WOOD)
Dated
4 August 1830
Proved
August 1830 court
Family named
Elizabeth (wife); James Wood (brother); Ezekiel Haley (brother-in-law)
Also left something
Henry Wood
Executors
Elizabeth (wife); Ezekiel Haley (brother-in-law)
Witnesses
Arch'd Cain; J. B. Leathers

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 231.
  • Abstract: Ruth Herndon Shields, Abstracts of Wills Recorded in Orange County, North Carolina, 1800–1850 (1958), page 140.
  • 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).
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