Will of Henry Webb

Henry Webb named sons Wentworth and John and appointed his wife Elizabeth Webb executrix.

Kind of paper

Will

Testator

Henry Webb (printed HENRY WEBB)

Dated

10 January 1756

Proved

March 1759 court

In the court minutes

• Will proved, March 1759 term

Family named

Elizabeth Webb (wife); Wentworth (son); John (son)

Executor

Elizabeth Webb (wife)

Witnesses

George Laws; Elias Downs

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

• Known from J. Bryan Grimes’s North Carolina will abstracts, page 395, as Shields gives it.
• Abstract: Ruth Herndon Shields, Abstracts of Wills Recorded 1752 through 1800 in Orange County, North Carolina, Will Books A, B and C (Davie Poplar Chapter NSDAR, revised edition 1966), page 4.