Will of Rachel (x) Miller

Rachel Miller named children, sister Sally and sons-in-law, making cash and loom bequests; no executor was named.

Kind of paper

Will

Testator

Rachel (x) Miller (printed RACHEL (x) MILLER)

Dated

5 February 1824

Proved

February 1824 court

Family named

William (son); Jessey (son); John (son); Jarge (son; under age); Lydia Miller (daughter); Polly Miller (daughter); Rebecca Miller (daughter); Sally Hall (sister); Samuel Bird (son-in-law); James S. Cate (son-in-law)

Witnesses

John I. Freeland; Daniel Cloud

Money and goods

my loom; 5 shillings each

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 52.
• Abstract: Ruth Herndon Shields, Abstracts of Wills Recorded in Orange County, North Carolina, 1800–1850 (1958), page 108.
• 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).