Orange County Indexed
Will of Jacob (x) Anthony, Sr
Will Book E, page 338 · dated 31 July 1828 · proved May 1835
Jacob Anthony named daughter Mary Moser, eldest son Jacob, and twelve other children and appointed Henry Anthony and Adam Wrightsel executors.
- Kind of paper
- Will
- Testator
- Jacob (x) Anthony, Sr (printed JACOB (x) ANTHONY, SR)
- Dated
- 31 July 1828
- Proved
- May 1835 court
- Family named
- Jacob (eldest son); Henry Anthony (son); Mary Moser (daughter)
- Executors
- Henry Anthony (son); Adam Wrightsel
- Witness
- A. W. Albright
- In the paper’s words
- “I was born the first day of May 1745”
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 338.
- Abstract: Ruth Herndon Shields, Abstracts of Wills Recorded in Orange County, North Carolina, 1800–1850 (1958), page 158.
- 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).
