Orange County Indexed
Will of James Woody
Will Book E, page 28 · dated 27 February 1821 · proved November 1822
James Woody named Mary, three sons and nine daughters and appointed sons Hugh and Samuel executors.
- Kind of paper
- Will
- Testator
- James Woody (printed JAMES WOODY)
- Dated
- 27 February 1821
- Proved
- November 1822 court
- Family named
- Mary (wife); Hugh (son); Samuel (son); John (son); Sarah (daughter); Mary (daughter); Rebecca (daughter); Charity (daughter); Hannah (daughter); Susannah (daughter); Jane (daughter); Ruth (daughter); Ellenor (daughter)
- Executors
- Hugh (son); Samuel (son)
- Witnesses
- Enoch Morrison; Robert Graham
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 28.
- 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).
