Orange County Indexed
Will of William Leathers
Will Book E, page 87 · dated 10 March 1825 · proved August 1825
William Leathers directed equal division among his unnamed wife and children after holding property together until marriage or majority; Fielding Leathers and Tignal Jones were executors.
- Kind of paper
- Will
- Testator
- William Leathers (printed WILLIAM LEATHERS)
- Dated
- 10 March 1825
- Proved
- August 1825 court
- Family named
- Fielding Leathers (brother)
- Executors
- Fielding Leathers (brother); Tignal Jones
- Witnesses
- James Webb; Westward A. Jones
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 87.
- 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).
