Will of Archibald (x) Findly

Archibald Findly left wife Ann his estate and named underage children Brice, Andrew, and Morau.

Kind of paper

Will

Testator

Archibald (x) Findly (printed ARCHIBALD (x) FINDLY)

Dated

3 December 1833

Proved

February 1844 court

A second reading

Mark Chilton’s index of the will books gives the testator as Archibald Finly and the probate as February 1834. Check the will book to settle it.

Family named

Ann (wife); Brice (my children; under 21 years of age); Andrew (my children; under 21 years of age); Morau (my children; under 21 years of age)

Executors

John A. Faucett (trusty friends); Levi McCollum (trusty friends)

Witnesses

Geo. W. Bruce; John Newman

In the paper’s words

“weak 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 311.
• Abstract: Ruth Herndon Shields, Abstracts of Wills Recorded in Orange County, North Carolina, 1800–1850 (1958), page 154.
• 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).