Orange County Indexed
Will of Joseph Baker Sr.
Will Book E, page 256 · dated 24 October 1830 · proved August 1831
Joseph Baker named two daughters, son Joseph, and underage granddaughter Eliza H. Baker and appointed John Trolinger and Joseph Baker executors.
- Kind of paper
- Will
- Testator
- Joseph Baker Sr. (printed JOSEPH BAKER SR.)
- Dated
- 24 October 1830
- Proved
- August 1831 court
- Family named
- Nathaniel Baker (my son; now deceased); Joseph Baker (son); Margaret Murray (daughter); Susey Clarke (daughter); Eliza H. Baker (my granddaughter, daughter of my son Nathaniel Baker; under 21)
- Executors
- John Trolinger (friend); Joseph Baker (son)
- Witnesses
- Wm. H. White; James A. Craig
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 256.
- Abstract: Ruth Herndon Shields, Abstracts of Wills Recorded in Orange County, North Carolina, 1800–1850 (1958), page 144.
- 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).
