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Orange County Indexed

Will of Robert Tinnen

Will Book E, page 375 · dated 22 April 1830 · proved February 1836

Robert Tinnen left a plantation to Catlett and Robert, named sons and grandsons, and appointed David and Robert Tinnen executors.

Kind of paper
Will
Testator
Robert Tinnen (printed ROBERT TINNEN)
Dated
22 April 1830
Proved
February 1836 court
Family named
Catlett C. Tinnen (son); Robert Tinnen (son); Thomas (son); David (son); David Tinnen (son); Robert Clark (grandson; of Jos); Robert Tinnen (grandson; of Thos)
Also left something
Polly Deneal (my bound girl)
Executors
David Tinnen (son); Robert Tinnen (son)
Witnesses
J. Taylor; James Lindsey
Land
plantation which joins Joseph Allison
Also named
Joseph Allison

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 375.
  • Abstract: Ruth Herndon Shields, Abstracts of Wills Recorded in Orange County, North Carolina, 1800–1850 (1958), page 165.
  • 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).
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