Orange County Indexed
Will of Solomon Cate
Will Book F, page 216 · dated 8 April 1839 · proved August 1844
Solomon Cate named wife Mary, son Thomas, Anna, and little William, who was to be bound to a trade; Thomas was executor.
- Kind of paper
- Will
- Testator
- Solomon Cate (printed SOLOMON CATE)
- Dated
- 8 April 1839
- Proved
- August 1844 court
- A second reading
- Mark Chilton’s index of the will books gives the testator as Solomon Cates and the date as 2 April 1839. Check the will book to settle it.
- Family named
- Mary (wife); Thomas (son)
- Also left something
- Anna; William
- Executor
- Thomas (son)
- Witnesses
- Thomas Sykes; Anna (x) Cate
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 216.
- Abstract: Ruth Herndon Shields, Abstracts of Wills Recorded in Orange County, North Carolina, 1800–1850 (1958), page 206.
- 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).
