Will of Mary Woods

Mary Woods named daughters and descendants and appointed son Joseph Woods and friend Robert Walker executors.

Kind of paper

Will

Testator

Mary Woods (printed MARY WOODS), widow

Dated

2 October 1820

Proved

November 1822 court

Family named

John Woods (son); Joseph Woods (son); Susanna Faucett (daughter); Sarah Ray (daughter); Elizabeth Woods (daughter); Mary Ann Ray (daughter); Rebecca P, Ray (daughter of Thomas Ray and his Mary); Susanna (son John Woods two daughters); Peggy (son John Woods two daughters); Timothy Wood (my grandson); Mary Mecia (?) Wood (great-grand-daughter, daughter of my grandson Timothy Wood)

Executors

Joseph Woods (son); Robert Walker (friend)

Witnesses

William Dunagan; Eli Woods; Wm. Baldwin

Also named

Thomas Ray (parents of granddaughter); Mary (parents of granddaughter)

Reading note: Mary Mecia (?) Wood questioned; Rebecca P, Ray punctuation retained.

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 26.
• Abstract: Ruth Herndon Shields, Abstracts of Wills Recorded in Orange County, North Carolina, 1800–1850 (1958), page 103.
• 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).