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Orange County Indexed

Will of Joseph (x) White

Will Book F, page 195 · dated 27 March 1844 · proved May 1844

Joseph White named wife Nancy, mother Mary, two daughters, and two sons and directed purchased land be rented, appointing Thomas White executor.

Kind of paper
Will
Testator
Joseph (x) White (printed JOSEPH (x) WHITE)
Dated
27 March 1844
Proved
May 1844 court
Family named
Nancy (wife); Thomas White (son); Joseph White (son); Susanna Craig (daughter); Nancy Cole (daughter); Mary Couch (mother)
Executor
Thomas White
Witnesses
Jas. N. Patterson; Sam Couch; Anderson (x) Rhodes
Land
Land he purchased of Moses H. Turner
Also named
Moses H. Turner

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 195.
  • Abstract: Ruth Herndon Shields, Abstracts of Wills Recorded in Orange County, North Carolina, 1800–1850 (1958), page 204.
  • 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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