Will of Joseph Armstrong

Joseph Armstrong named wife Frances, children, grandchildren, and grandson Joseph Tate; sons-in-law John Tate and John Faucett were executors.

Kind of paper

Will

Testator

Joseph Armstrong (printed JOSEPH ARMSTRONG)

Dated

14 June 1839

Proved

February 1846 court

Family named

Frances (wife); John Armstrong (son); Thomas D. Armstrong (son); Frances Clendennin (daughter); Jinney Walker (daughter); Elizabeth Tate (daughter); Henrietta Tate (daughter); Parthena Faucett (daughter); Joseph McAdams (grandchild); Mary Rippy (grandchild); Peggy McAdams (grandchild); Catherine McAdams (grandchild); Joseph Tate (little grandson; Betsy Tate's son); John Tate (son-in-law); John Faucett (son-in-law)

Executors

John Tate (son-in-law); John Faucett (son-in-law)

Also named

Betsy Tate (mother of Joseph Tate)

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 271.
• Abstract: Ruth Herndon Shields, Abstracts of Wills Recorded in Orange County, North Carolina, 1800–1850 (1958), page 214.
• 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).