Orange County Indexed
Will of Osbourne Snipes
Will Book F, page 171 · dated 17 September 1835 · proved November 1843
Osbourne Snipes left his estate to wife Martha and fifty cents to any other legal representatives or heirs and appointed Bennett T. Blake executor.
- Kind of paper
- Will
- Testator
- Osbourne Snipes (printed OSBOURNE SNIPES)
- Dated
- 17 September 1835
- Proved
- November 1843 court
- Family named
- Martha Snipes (wife)
- Executor
- Bennett T. Blake
- Witnesses
- Ellis G. Blake; Jno P. Cook
- Money and goods
- 50¢
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 171.
- Abstract: Ruth Herndon Shields, Abstracts of Wills Recorded in Orange County, North Carolina, 1800–1850 (1958), page 200.
- 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).
