Orange County Indexed
Will of Jemima (x) Cabe
Will Book F, page 248 · dated 5 March 1845 · proved May 1845
Jemima Cabe left a plantation to daughter Mary Burton, named children and grandchildren, and appointed John Brown and Samuel S. Claytor executors.
- Kind of paper
- Will
- Testator
- Jemima (x) Cabe (printed JEMIMA (x) CABE)
- Dated
- 5 March 1845
- Proved
- May 1845 court
- Family named
- William Cabe (son); Mary Burton (daughter); Rachel Claytor (daughter); John Burton (grandson); Mary A. Burton (granddaughter); John Brown (my son-in-law)
- Executors
- John Brown (son-in-law); Samuel S. Claytor
- Witnesses
- Allen Brown; Thomas Piper
- Land
- the plantation I purchased of my son-in-law John Brown
- In the paper’s words
- “weak and feeble”
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 248.
- 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).
