Will of Henry Brannock, Sr.

Henry Brannock named wife Elizabeth, six sons, and daughter Sarah and appointed Henry Brannock and Edmund Brannock executors.

Kind of paper

Will

Testator

Henry Brannock, Sr. (printed HENRY BRANNOCK, SR.)

Dated

1 September 1828

Proved

August 1841 court

A second reading

Mark Chilton’s index of the will books gives the date as 1 September 1838. Check the will book to settle it.

Family named

Elizabeth (wife); William (son); Henry (son); Edmund (son); James (son); Wright (son); Thomas (son); Sarah (daughter)

Executors

Henry Brannock; Edmund Brannock

Witnesses

John Foster; Alex. N. Brannock; William Makins

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 97.
• Abstract: Ruth Herndon Shields, Abstracts of Wills Recorded in Orange County, North Carolina, 1800–1850 (1958), page 192.
• 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).