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Orange County Indexed

Will of Phebe (x) Grimes

Will Book E, page not given · dated 10 November 1832 · proved February 1836

Phebe Grimes left five dollars each to three sisters and land and other property to sister Lydia.

Kind of paper
Will
Testator
Phebe (x) Grimes (printed PHEBE (x) GRIMES)
Dated
10 November 1832
Proved
February 1836 court
Family named
Elizabeth Grimes (sister); Anna Grimes (sister); Rebecca Montgomery (sister widow of Hugh Montgomery); Lydia Grimes (sister); Lydia (sister); Hugh Montgomery
Executors
Anderson Wilson (Loving friend); Lydia (sister)
Witnesses
Caleb Wilson; Samuel Turrentine; Martha Wilson; Absolem Turrentine
Land
Land and all other property
Money and goods
$5

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 not given.
  • Abstract: Ruth Herndon Shields, Abstracts of Wills Recorded in Orange County, North Carolina, 1800–1850 (1958), page 164.
  • 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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