Orange County Indexed
Will of James Tate
Will Book F, page 8 · dated 15 December 1837 · proved August 1838
James Tate left a plantation to son David, named other sons and beneficiaries, and appointed Samuel N. Tate executor.
- Kind of paper
- Will
- Testator
- James Tate (printed JAMES TATE)
- Dated
- 15 December 1837
- Proved
- August 1838 court
- Family named
- David (son); George (son); Samuel N. Tate (son); Sam'l N. Tate (my son); John Squires (son-in-law)
- Also left something
- George Marlet (no relationship stated); Thomas Gill
- Executor
- Samuel N. Tate (son)
- Witnesses
- C. C. Smith; Thomas McCracken
- Land
- home plantation at present occupied by Chas Cox
- Money and goods
- $70
- Also named
- Chas Cox
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 8.
- 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).
