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Orange County Indexed

Will of Phebe (x) Barbee

Will Book E, page 410 · dated 12 December 1836 · proved February 1837

Phebe Barbee named daughters and grandchildren, limited Luvinia Matley to fifty cents, and appointed Gabriel Barbee executor.

Kind of paper
Will
Testator
Phebe (x) Barbee (printed PHEBE (x) BARBEE)
Dated
12 December 1836
Proved
February 1837 court
Family named
Gemima Hopkins (daughter); Mary King (daughter); Elizabeth Rencher (daughter); Francis Barbee (grandson); Durcilla (granddaughter, all the daughters of Gabriel Barbee); Nancy (granddaughter, all the daughters of Gabriel Barbee); Noe (granddaughter, all the daughters of Gabriel Barbee); Phebe (granddaughter, all the daughters of Gabriel Barbee); Ann Barbee (granddaughter, all the daughters of Gabriel Barbee)
Also left something
Luvinia Matley
Executor
Gabriel Barbee
Witnesses
Isaah Marcum; David Malone
Money and goods
50¢

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 410.
  • Abstract: Ruth Herndon Shields, Abstracts of Wills Recorded in Orange County, North Carolina, 1800–1850 (1958), page 172.
  • 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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