Orange County Indexed
Will of William Whyte
Will Book E, page 251 · dated 20 July 1831 · proved August 1831
William Whyte named wife Lucy and three children and appointed friend John McCauley executor.
- Kind of paper
- Will
- Testator
- William Whyte (printed WILLIAM WHYTE), of the Village of Chapel Hill
- Dated
- 20 July 1831
- Proved
- August 1831 court
- Family named
- Lucy (wife); Thomas Whyte (my three children); Rebecca Ann Whyte (my three children); Joseph Whyte (my three children)
- Executor
- John McCauley (friend)
- Witnesses
- D. B. Alsobrook; Thomas E. Taylor
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.
- 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).
