Codicil of William Whyte

William Whyte mentioned a plantation purchased from William Barbee Sr known as Creage Mill Tract.

Kind of paper

Codicil

Testator

William Whyte (printed WILLIAM WHYTE)

Dated

8 August 1831

Proved

August 1831 court

Witnesses

D. B. Alsobrook; Thomas E. Taylor

Land

my plantation which I lately purchased of William Barbee Sr known as Creage (?) Mill Tract

Also named

William Barbee Sr

Reading note: Shields questions Creage (?) Mill Tract; codicil signed with a mark.

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 251.
• Abstract: Ruth Herndon Shields, Abstracts of Wills Recorded in Orange County, North Carolina, 1800–1850 (1958), page 143.
• Microfilm at the Orange County Public Library, Wall Local History Collection: reel 80003, “Record of Wills, 1822–1851, Vols. E, F” (State Archives film).