Orange County Indexed
Will of Ann Phillips
Will Book F, page 4 · dated 9 September 1837 · proved February 1838
Ann Phillips named children and directed daughter Lucretia to live with Boston Iseley and his wife; Boston and Rachel received Lucretia’s share.
- Kind of paper
- Will
- Testator
- Ann Phillips (printed ANN PHILLIPS)
- Dated
- 9 September 1837
- Proved
- February 1838 court
- A second reading
- Mark Chilton’s index of the will books gives the date as 21 January 1838. Check the will book to settle it.
- Family named
- Benjamin (son); Polly (daughter); Hannah (daughter); Rachel (daughter); Lucretia (daughter; non compos mentis); Boston Iseley (brother-in-law)
- Executor
- Boston Iseley
- Witnesses
- Jesse Thompson; John Lewis; Abner (x) James
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 4.
- Abstract: Ruth Herndon Shields, Abstracts of Wills Recorded in Orange County, North Carolina, 1800–1850 (1958), page 179.
- 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).
