{"id":215,"date":"2010-01-24T12:20:04","date_gmt":"2010-01-24T19:20:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ncgenweb.us\/wake\/?page_id=215"},"modified":"2010-01-24T12:20:04","modified_gmt":"2010-01-24T19:20:04","slug":"wills","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/ncgenweb.us\/wake\/wills\/","title":{"rendered":"Wills &amp; Estate Records"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A\u00a0<em>will<\/em> is a written and legal expression of the individual&#8217;s instructions regarding his property a the time of his death. The will usually describes the estate and often gives the names and relationships of heirs or beneficiaries. &#8212; <a href=\"https:\/\/wiki.familysearch.org\/en\/Wills\" target=\"_blank\">FamilySearch Research Wiki<\/a><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.scribd.com\/doc\/154734343\/Wake-County-NC-Loose-Estates-Index\" target=\"_blank\">Wake County NC Loose Estates Index, 1663-1979<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li>Look at the index for the book &#8220;<em>Wake County, North Carolina Abstracts of Wills, Inventories, and Settlements of Estates: 1771-1802<\/em>&#8221; published in 1984 by Frances Holloway Wynne. \u00a0Also includes a <strong>slave index<\/strong>. \u00a0If you see a will that you are more interested in, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.worldcat.org\/oclc\/12127570\">look for this book at a local library<\/a> or contact me for a lookup. \u00a0&#8212; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.scribd.com\/doc\/25720494\/Index-to-Wake-County-NC-Wills-Inventories-Estates\">View Index<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li>List of wills submitted to the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.usgwarchives.net\/nc\/wake\/wakewills.htm\">NCGenWeb Archives<\/a> &#8212; there are more than 100 wills listed!<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A\u00a0will is a written and legal expression of the individual&#8217;s instructions regarding his property a the time of his death. The will usually describes the estate and often gives the names and relationships of heirs or beneficiaries. &#8212; FamilySearch Research Wiki Wake County NC Loose Estates Index, 1663-1979 Look at the index for the book &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/ncgenweb.us\/wake\/wills\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Wills &amp; Estate Records&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":20,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-215","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ncgenweb.us\/wake\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/215","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ncgenweb.us\/wake\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ncgenweb.us\/wake\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ncgenweb.us\/wake\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ncgenweb.us\/wake\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=215"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/ncgenweb.us\/wake\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/215\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ncgenweb.us\/wake\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=215"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}