Orange County Indexed
Will of Zernah Hobson
Will Book F, page 84 · dated 11 January 1839 · proved February 1841
Zernah Hobson named daughters Lydia, Peninah, and Emily and directed Peninah to care for young Emily.
- Kind of paper
- Will
- Testator
- Zernah Hobson (printed ZERNAH HOBSON)
- Dated
- 11 January 1839
- Proved
- February 1841 court
- A second reading
- Mark Chilton’s index of the will books gives the date as 11 February 1839. Check the will book to settle it.
- Family named
- Lydia Hadley (daughter); Peninah Hobson (daughter); Emily Hobson (daughter)
- Executor
- Frederick Stafford (friend)
- Guardian
- Peninah (to have the motherly care of my young daughter Emily Hobson)
- Witnesses
- Wm. Thompson; Peninah Hobson; John Thompson
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 84.
- Abstract: Ruth Herndon Shields, Abstracts of Wills Recorded in Orange County, North Carolina, 1800–1850 (1958), page 190.
- 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).
