Orange County Indexed
Will of Joseph (x) Wood
Will Book E, page 291 · dated 10 September 1827 · proved May 1833
Joseph Wood named wife Polly and children and appointed son James Wood executor.
- Kind of paper
- Will
- Testator
- Joseph (x) Wood (printed JOSEPH (x) WOOD)
- Dated
- 10 September 1827
- Proved
- May 1833 court
- Family named
- Polly (wife); James Wood (son); Elizabeth Chisenhall (daughter); Solomon Wood (child); Henry (child); Joseph (child); Sukey Glenn (child); Nancy King (child); Mary Chisenhall (child)
- Executor
- James Wood (son)
- Witnesses
- Frederick Moize; Empsey Wood
- Money and goods
- $1 each
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 291.
- Abstract: Ruth Herndon Shields, Abstracts of Wills Recorded in Orange County, North Carolina, 1800–1850 (1958), page 150.
- 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).
