Orange County Indexed
Will of Charles Hobson
Will Book E, page 90 · dated 6 April 1825 · proved November 1825
Charles Hobson named Zernah and two minor daughters and appointed William Thompson executor.
- Kind of paper
- Will
- Testator
- Charles Hobson (printed CHARLES HOBSON)
- Dated
- 6 April 1825
- Proved
- November 1825 court
- Family named
- Zernah (wife); Peninah (daughter; both under age); Lydia (daughter; both under age)
- Executor
- William Thompson
- Witnesses
- John Thompson; John Thompson; Libri ? Moffitt
Reading note: Two witnesses named John Thompson; separate rows retained; Libri ? Moffitt questioned.
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 90.
- Abstract: Ruth Herndon Shields, Abstracts of Wills Recorded in Orange County, North Carolina, 1800–1850 (1958), page 116.
- 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).
