Orange County Indexed
Will of Empson Bird
Will Book E, page 237 · dated 15 January 1831 · proved February 1831
Empson Bird named his wife and five children, arranged their upbringing, and directed land bought from Catherine Redding to be sold.
- Kind of paper
- Will
- Testator
- Empson Bird (printed EMPSON BIRD)
- Dated
- 15 January 1831
- Proved
- February 1831 court
- Family named
- Polly (wife); Eliza Bird (two oldest daughters); Citty Bird (two oldest daughters); Martha Bird (three youngest); John Bird (three youngest); Richard Bird (three youngest)
- Executor
- George Jordan
- Guardians
- Betsy Florence (sister); Nancy Kirkpatrick (sister-in-law); Sarah Walker (Cousin); James Dickey (Uncle)
- Witnesses
- Jehu Bird; James Bird; Charles Jordan
- Land
- Land I bought from Catherine Redding
- Also named
- Catherine Redding; George Jordan (friend)
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 237.
- 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).
