Orange County Indexed
Will of George (x) Smith
Will Book F, page 132 · dated 27 October 1817 · proved May 1842
George Smith provided for his wife and children and appointed Thomas Whitted and Thomas Brewer executors.
- Kind of paper
- Will
- Testator
- George (x) Smith (printed GEORGE (x) SMITH)
- Dated
- 27 October 1817
- Proved
- May 1842 court
- A second reading
- Mark Chilton’s index of the will books gives the date as 27 October 1837. Check the will book to settle it.
- Family named
- David Smith (All my children); Joseph Smith (All my children); William Smith (All my children); George Smith (All my children); Wesley (All my children); Suckey Smith (All my children); Nancy Smith (All my children); Sally Smith (All my children)
- Executors
- Thomas Whitted (friends); Thomas Brewer (friends)
- Witness
- Thos. Brewer
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 132.
- 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).
