Orange County Indexed
Will of William Woods
Will Book E, page 236 · dated 25 September 1830 · proved November 1830
William Woods left wife Elenor a life estate, named daughters and son John, and provided one year’s lodging for David Dickey.
- Kind of paper
- Will
- Testator
- William Woods (printed WILLIAM WOODS)
- Dated
- 25 September 1830
- Proved
- November 1830 court
- Family named
- Elenor (wife); John S. Woods (son); Anne (daughter); Asenath (daughter); Robert Redden (son-in-law)
- Also left something
- David Dickey
- Executors
- John S. Woods (son); Robert Redden (son-in-law)
- Witnesses
- Samuel Paisley; James Clark
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 236.
- Abstract: Ruth Herndon Shields, Abstracts of Wills Recorded in Orange County, North Carolina, 1800–1850 (1958), page 141.
- 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).
