Orange County Indexed
Will of Richard Davis
Will Book E, page 239 · dated 17 February 1831 · proved February 1831
Richard Davis left small sums to several children, half his estate to Thomas Capper Davis, and half to Winnifred Beville and Fanny Trice.
- Kind of paper
- Will
- Testator
- Richard Davis (printed RICHARD DAVIS)
- Dated
- 17 February 1831
- Proved
- February 1831 court
- Family named
- Archibald (son); Miles Davis (son); John Richard Davis (son); Thomas Capper Davis (son); Dellila King (daughter); Sarah Montgomery (daughter); Mary Jenkins (daughter); Winnifred Beville (daughter); Fanny Trice (daughter)
- Executors
- John L. Moore (friends); James N. Patterson (friends)
- Witnesses
- J. L. Moore; Nancy Moore; James N. Patterson
- Money and goods
- 50¢ each; 50¢
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 239.
- 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).
