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Orange County Indexed

Will of Vines Guye

Will Book E, page 385 · dated 18 January 1836 · proved May 1836

Vines Guye left wife Elizabeth responsibility for raising unnamed children and appointed her and James Womble executors.

Kind of paper
Will
Testator
Vines Guye (printed VINES GUYE)
Dated
18 January 1836
Proved
May 1836 court
Family named
Elizabeth (wife)
Executors
Elizabeth (wife); James Womble
Witnesses
Tho. Prendergast; William Miles

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 385.
  • Abstract: Ruth Herndon Shields, Abstracts of Wills Recorded in Orange County, North Carolina, 1800–1850 (1958), page 167.
  • 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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