Orange County Indexed
Will of Rebecca (x) Bird
Will Book E, page 509 · dated 18 August 1837 · proved November 1837
Rebecca Bird directed education for son James J. Bird and appointed James Bird executor.
- Kind of paper
- Will
- Testator
- Rebecca (x) Bird (printed REBECCA (x) BIRD)
- Dated
- 18 August 1837
- Proved
- November 1837 court
- Family named
- James J. Bird (son; to be educated)
- Executor
- James Bird
- Witness
- Thomas Reeves
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 509.
- Abstract: Ruth Herndon Shields, Abstracts of Wills Recorded in Orange County, North Carolina, 1800–1850 (1958), page 176.
- 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).
