Orange County Indexed
Will of James Barber
Will Book F, page 43 · dated 4 January 1840 · proved February 1840
James Barber named wife Ellen, daughters Sarah Jane and Mary Ann, and friend Samuel Ellett and appointed John W. Wilson executor.
- Kind of paper
- Will
- Testator
- James Barber (printed JAMES BARBER)
- Dated
- 4 January 1840
- Proved
- February 1840 court
- Family named
- Ellen (wife); Sarah Jane (daughter); Mary Ann (daughter)
- Also left something
- Samuel Ellett (friend)
- Executor
- John W. Wilson
- Witnesses
- Nathan Findley; A. N. Watson
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 43.
- Abstract: Ruth Herndon Shields, Abstracts of Wills Recorded in Orange County, North Carolina, 1800–1850 (1958), page 185.
- 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).
