Will of Laban (x) Andrews

Laban Andrews named wife Rebecca, children, and son-in-law Aron Trip and appointed sons David and Berry executors.

Kind of paper

Will

Testator

Laban (x) Andrews (printed LABAN (x) ANDREWS)

Dated

5 October 1837

Proved

May 1842 court

Family named

Rebecca (wife); Green (son); John (son); David (son); Berry (son); Hannah (daughter); David (my children); William (my children); Henry (my children); Nancy Cates (my children); Berry (my children); Willie (my children); Elizabeth Trip (my children); Delia Robards (my children); Aron Trip (son-in-law)

Executors

David (son); Berry (son)

Witnesses

E. Graves; A. Graves; J. Caruthers; Ruffin Andrews

In the paper’s words

“weak in body”

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 F, page 130.
• Abstract: Ruth Herndon Shields, Abstracts of Wills Recorded in Orange County, North Carolina, 1800–1850 (1958), page 195.
• 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).