Orange County Indexed
Will of Barnabas O'Fairhill
Will Book E, page 245 · dated 28 January 1831 · proved February 1831
Barnabas O’Fairhill left wife Nancy one third, excluded her children, and named sister Jane Woods and niece Anne Kelly.
- Kind of paper
- Will
- Testator
- Barnabas O'Fairhill (printed BARNABAS O'FAIRHILL)
- Dated
- 28 January 1831
- Proved
- February 1831 court
- Family named
- Nancy (wife); Jane Woods (sister); Anne Kelly (niece)
- Executor
- Thomas Clincy (of Hillsborough)
- Witnesses
- Thomas D. Watts; John Scott
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 245.
- Abstract: Ruth Herndon Shields, Abstracts of Wills Recorded in Orange County, North Carolina, 1800–1850 (1958), page 142.
- 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).
