Orange County Indexed
Will of Betsy (x) Leigh
Will Book E, page 292 · dated 3 March 1832 · proved May 1833
Betsy Leigh named two sisters and two brothers and appointed brother Sullivan Leigh executor.
- Kind of paper
- Will
- Testator
- Betsy (x) Leigh (printed BETSY (x) LEIGH)
- Dated
- 3 March 1832
- Proved
- May 1833 court
- Family named
- Nancy Garrett (sister); Anna Leigh (sister); Thomas Leigh (brother); Sullivan Leigh (brother)
- Executor
- Sullivan Leigh (brother)
- Witnesses
- Joseph Dickson; William Leigh
- In the paper’s words
- “sick in body”
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 292.
- 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).
