Orange County Indexed
Will of William (x) Brewer
Will Book E, pages 303–305 · dated 2 April 1826 · proved August 1833
William Brewer named wife Dorothy, grandchildren, Jane Brewer and her children, and appointed Thomas Weaver and Joseph Brewer executors.
- Kind of paper
- Will
- Testator
- William (x) Brewer (printed WILLIAM (x) BREWER)
- Dated
- 2 April 1826
- Proved
- August 1833 court
- Family named
- Dorothy (wife); Isham Brewer (my son); Joseph (four sons of my son Isham Brewer); Benjamin (four sons of my son Isham Brewer); Washington (four sons of my son Isham Brewer); Isham (four sons of my son Isham Brewer); William Hatch (grandchild); George B. Hatch (grandchild); Sally Hatch (grandchild); William B. Bredges (grandchild); Elizabeth O. Bredges (grandchild); Mary I. Bredges (grandchild)
- Also left something
- Jane Brewer
- Executors
- Thomas Weaver (trusty friends); Joseph Brewer (trusty friends)
- Witnesses
- Jessey Nevills; John Crabtree; William Thompson
- Also named
- July (her six children); Polly (her six children)
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, pages 303–305.
- Abstract: Ruth Herndon Shields, Abstracts of Wills Recorded in Orange County, North Carolina, 1800–1850 (1958), page 153.
- 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).
