Will of Joseph (x) Courtney

Joseph Courtney left his estate to friend and relation Thomas D. Watts.

Kind of paper

Will

Testator

Joseph (x) Courtney (printed JOSEPH (x) COURTNEY)

Dated

29 July 1818

Proved

November 1822 court

Family named

Frances Courtney (Loving friend and sister)

Also left something

Thomas D. Watts (friend, relation); Elizabeth Christmas (live where she is now for her lifetime)

Executor

Thomas Clancy (friend)

Witnesses

Robert Glenn; Jane Glenn

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 25.
• Abstract: Ruth Herndon Shields, Abstracts of Wills Recorded in Orange County, North Carolina, 1800–1850 (1958), page 102.
• 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).