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Orange County Indexed

Will of John B. Vincent

Will Book E, page 95 · dated 13 September 1825 · proved November 1825

John Vincent named brothers, sisters and niece Elizabeth Bird; brothers William and James were executors.

Kind of paper
Will
Testator
John B. Vincent (printed JOHN B. VINCENT)
Dated
13 September 1825
Proved
November 1825 court
Family named
William (brother); James (brother); Betsey (sister); Polly Bird (sister); Elizabeth Bird (niece, daughter of my sister Polly Bird)
Executors
William (brother); James (brother)
Witnesses
Gabriel B. Leigh; Ashford Walker; Wm. C. Patrick; James Weldon

Reading note: Probate term 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 95.
  • Abstract: Ruth Herndon Shields, Abstracts of Wills Recorded in Orange County, North Carolina, 1800–1850 (1958), page 117.
  • 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).
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