Will of George (x) Baker

George Baker named wife Barbary, three married sons, and other beneficiaries and appointed son John Baker executor.

Kind of paper

Will

Testator

George (x) Baker (printed GEORGE (x) BAKER)

Dated

3 January 1845

Proved

February 1845 court

Family named

Barbary (wife); Thomas (son; having left me and married); Isreal (son; having left me and married); John Baker (son; having left me and married)

Also left something

C.B. Baker (no relationship stated); George Baker (no relationship stated); Mary Baker (no relationship stated); Susan Baker (no relationship stated)

Executor

John Baker (son)

Witnesses

Snelson Love; Samuel P. Foster

In the paper’s words

“low state of health”

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 244.
• Abstract: Ruth Herndon Shields, Abstracts of Wills Recorded in Orange County, North Carolina, 1800–1850 (1958), page 210.
• 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).