Orange County Indexed
Will of Rebecca Montgomery
Will Book F, page 22 · dated 18 December 1838 · proved May 1839
Rebecca Montgomery named daughter Lydia Woods and four sons and appointed son Hamilton Montgomery executor.
- Kind of paper
- Will
- Testator
- Rebecca Montgomery (printed REBECCA MONTGOMERY)
- Dated
- 18 December 1838
- Proved
- May 1839 court
- A second reading
- Mark Chilton’s index of the will books gives the date as 15 December 1838. Check the will book to settle it.
- Family named
- Hamilton (son); Hugh (son); James (son); Alexander (son); Hamilton Montgomery (son); Lydia Woods (daughter)
- Executor
- Hamilton Montgomery (son)
- Witnesses
- John Woods; James T. Roberts
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 22.
- Abstract: Ruth Herndon Shields, Abstracts of Wills Recorded in Orange County, North Carolina, 1800–1850 (1958), page 182.
- 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).
