Will of Joseph Boothe, Senior

Joseph Boothe named Sarah, children and grandchildren and appointed Wm. Yates, Sampson Moore and Sarah Boothe executors.

Kind of paper

Will

Testator

Joseph Boothe, Senior (printed JOSEPH BOOTHE, SENIOR)

Dated

7 September 1824

Proved

August 1825 court

Family named

Sarah (wife); Sarah Boothe (wife); Joseph (son); Mary Herndon (their deceased mother; deceased); Rosy Reach (Beach ?) (daughter); Elizabeth Stone (daughter); Tabitha Hudson (daughter); Delilah Yates (daughter); Sally George (daughter); Joseph B. Herndon (grandchild); George Herndon (grandchild); Lewis (grandchild); Willis (grandchild); Mary Herndon (grandchild); Mary Yates (daughter of Rosy Reach)

Executors

Wm. Yates; Sampson Moore; Sarah Boothe (wife)

Witnesses

David George; David Castleberry

Reading note: Rosy Reach (Beach ?) alternate surname; Lewis and Willis share surname printed after Mary Herndon, retained as printed.

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 86.
• Abstract: Ruth Herndon Shields, Abstracts of Wills Recorded in Orange County, North Carolina, 1800–1850 (1958), page 115.
• 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).