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PROBATE RECORDS, A SELECTED BIBLIOGRAPHY
by Lloyd deWitt Bockstruck
[US] Carole Shammas, Inheritance in America: From Colonial Times
to the Present.
[AL] Index to Alabama Wills 1808-1870. [AR] Corinne C.
Stevenson, Index to Wills and Administrations of Arkansas from
the Earliest to 1900. [CT] Charles W. Manwaring, A Digest of the
Early Connecticut Records. [CT] Spencer P. Mead, Abstract of
Probate Records of Fairfield, County of
Fairfield & State of Connecticut 1648-1759. [CT] -------,
Abstract of Probate Records for the District of Stamford,
County
of Fairfield and State of Connecticut 1719-1848. [CT] Public
Records of the Colony of Connecticut 1636-1776. [DE] Donald Odell
Virdin, Colonial Delaware Wills and Estates to 1800, An Index. [DC]
Dorothy S. Provine, Index to District of Columbia Wills
1801-1920,
1921-1950. [GA] Colonial Dames of America, Abstracts of Colonial
Wills of the State of
Georgia. [GA] Ted 0. Brooke, In the Name of God, Amen. Georgia
Wills 1733-1860, An Index
of Testators to Wills of Georgia Recorded in Colonial Will Books
and in Loose Will Coll~ctions, 1733-1777 and Wills Recorded on File
in County and State Offices, 1777-1860.
[GA] Marilyn Adams, Index to Probate Records of Colonial
Georgia, 1733-1778. [GA] Jeanette H. Austin, Index to Georgia
Wills. [GA]-------, Georgia Intestate Records. [GA]-------,
Abstracts of Georgia Wills. [IN] Charles M. Franklin, Index to
Indiana Wills to 1880. [KY] J. Estelle S. King, Abstract of Early
Kentucky Wills and Administrations. [KY] Ronald Vern Jackson, Index
to Kentucky Wills to 1851: the Testators. [ME] William M. Sargent,
Maine Wills, 1640-1760. [ME]-------, York Deeds Book V. [ME]
Province and Court Records of Maine. 1636-1727. 5 vols. [ME]
William D. Patterson, The Probate Records of Lincoln County,
Maine:
1760 to 1800. [ME] John E. Frost, Maine Probate Abstracts. [ME]
Joseph Anderson, York County, Maine Will Abstracts 1801-1858. [MD]
V. L. Skinner, Abstracts of the Inventories of the Prerogative
Court of
Maryland 1718-1777. [MD] -------, Abstracts of Inventories and
Accounts of the Prerogataive Court
of Maryland, 1674+. [MD] -------, Abstracts of the Balance Books
of the Prerogative Court of
Maryland, Liber 1, 1751-1755 +. [MD] Jane B. Cotton, The
Maryland Calendar of Wills 1635 to 1743. [MD] Roberta F. Henry, The
Maryland Calendar of Wills, v. 9+ . [MD] James M McGruder, Index of
Maryland Colonial Wills, 1634-1777, in the Hall
of Records. [MD]-------, Maryland Colonial Abstracts: Wills,
Accounts, and Inventories,
1771-1777. [MAJ Index to Probate Records of the County of
Middlesex, Massachusetts,
First Series, from 1648 to 1871. [MD] Prerogative Court Wills
1635-1773, v. 1-38. Microfilm, 40 rolls.
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[MAJ Essex County, Massachusetts Probate Index 1638-1840. [MAJ
The Probate Records of Essex County, Massachusetts 1635-1681. [MAJ
H. L. Peter Rounds, Abstracts of Bristol County, Massachusetts
Probate
Records 1687-1762. [MAJ Index to Probate Records of the County
of Worcester, Massachusetts
July 1737- July 1, 1881, July 1, 1881-January 1, 1898. [MAJ
Ralph Van Wood, Plymouth County, Massachusetts Probate Index,
1686-1881. [MAJ Index to the Probate Records of the County of
Suffolk, Massachusetts
1636-1893. [MS] Betty C. Wiltshire, Mississippi Will Index,
1800-1900. [MS] Junie E. S. King, Mississippi Court Records
1799-1835. [NH] Probate Records of the Province of New Hampshire,
1635-1771. [NJ] Calendar of New Jersey Wills and Administrations,
1670-1817. [NJ] New Jersey, Index of Wills, Inventories, Etc., in
the Office of the
Secretary of State Prior to 1901. [NY] Berthold Fernow, Calendar
of Wills on File and Recorded in the Offices
of the Clerk of the Court of Appeals, of the County Clerk at
Albany, and of the Secretary of State, 1616-1800.
[NY] Arthur C. M. Kelly, Index Names of Principals Abstracts of
Wills 1665-1776 on File in the Surrogate's Office City of New
York.
[NY] -------, Index Names of Principals Abstracts of Wills
1777-1800 in the Surrogate's Office City of New York.
[NY] Kenneth Scott, Genealogical Data from New York
Administration Bonds 1753-1799 and Hitherto Unpublished Letters of
Administration.
[NY] Edmund B. O'Callaghan, Minutes of the Orphanmasters of New
Amsterdam 1663-1668.
[NC] Thornton W. Mitchell, North Carolina Wills, a Testator
Index, 1665-1900. North Carolina Wil 1 s and Inventories in the
File of the Secretary of
State. [NC] Fred A. 01 ds, An Abstract of North Carolina Wills,
from about 1760 to 1800. [NC] Abstract of North Carolina Wills on
File in the Office of the Secretary
of State. [NC] Stephen E. Bradley, Early Records of North
Carolina (from the Secretary
of State Papers). [NC] Secretary of State North Carolina Wills
1663-1789. Microfilm, 7 rolls. [OH] Carol W. Bell, Ohio Wills and
Estate to 1850: An Index. [RI] Nellie M. C. Beaman, Index of Wills
1636-1850. [Rhode Island Genealogical
Register, v. 16] [RI] Edward Field, Index to the Probate Records
of the Municipal Court of the
City of Providence, Rhode Island from 1646 to and Including the
Year 1899. [SC] Brent Holcomb, Probate Records of South Carolina. 3
vols. [SC] Martha L. Houston, Indexes to the County Wills of South
Carolina. [SC] Index to Wills of Charleston County, South Carolina.
[SC] Caroline T. Moore, Abstracts of the Wills of the State of
South Carolina,
1670-1800. [SC] South Carolina Will Transcripts. Microfilm, 31
rolls. [SC] Mary B. Warren, South Carolina Wills, 1670-1853 or
Later. [SC] Mary P. Young, Abstracts of Old Ninety Six and
Abbeville District Wills
and Bonds. [TN] Byron Sistler, Index to Tennessee Wills and
Administrations 1779-1861. [TX] Index to Probate Cases of Texas.
Counties of Atascosa, Bowie, Brazoria,
Brazos, Brown, Camp, Chambers, Coleman, Delta, Franklin, Gregg,
Guadalupe, Hardin, Hays, Liberty, Marion, Morris, Newton, Nolan,
Orange, Robertson,
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Runnels, Rusk, San Saba~ Shelby, Trinity, Titus, Waller,
Williamson, and Wood.
[VA] William L. Hopkins, Some Wills from the Burned Counties of
Virginia and Other Wills not Found in Virginia Wills and
Administrations 1632-1800.
[VA] John Vogt, Will and Estate Records in the Virginia State
Library, A Researcher's Guide.
[VA] Clayton Torrence, Virginia Wills and Administrations
1632-1800. [VA] Wesley E. Pippenger, Index to Virginia Estates,
1800-1865. vl+ [VA] Blanche Chapman, Wills and Administrations of
Elizabeth City County,
Virginia 1680-1800. [VA] William Crozier, Williamsburg Wills,
Being Transcriptions from the
Original Files at the Chancery Court of Williamsburg. [VA]
Virginia Wills from the Virginia Magazine of History and
Biogrpahy,
the William and Mary College Quarterly, and Tyler's. [VA]
Virginia D . . Gardner, Virginia Wills and Administrations. [WV]
Ross B. Johnston, West Virginia Estate Settlements, 1753-1850.
England a. Peter Wilson Coldham, English Estates of American
Colonists, American Wills
and Administrations in the Prerogative Court of Canterbury,
1610-1858. b. -------, American Wills Proved in London 1611-1775.
c. Index of Wills Proved in the Prerogative Court of Canterbury
1383-1700. [In
British Index Library, vols. 10, 11, 18, 25, 43, 44, 62, 67, 71,
77, & 80.] d. An Index to the Wills Proved in the Prerogative
Court of Canterbury 1750-
1800. e. David H. Pratt, Researching British Probates 1354-1858,
A Guide to the
Microfilm Collection of the Family History Library. f. An Index
to the Bank of England Will Extracts 1807-1845. Microfiche, 6. g.
Henry F. Waters, Genealogical Gleanings in England: Abstracts of
Wills
Relating to Early American Families, with Genealogical Notes and
Pedigrees Constructed from the Wills and Other Records.
h. Lothrop Withington, Virginia Gleanings in England: Abstracts
of 17th and 18th Century English Wills and Administrations Relating
to Virginia and Virginians.
i. Index to Prerogative Court of Canterbury Registered Wills and
Administration Acts for 1701-1749. Microfiche, 25. [+300,000]
j. Index to the Probate Accounts of England and Wales. Index
Library, v. 112 and 113.
k. Yorkshire Archaeological Society Record Series, Wills in the
York Registry, v. XI 1514-1553; v. XIV 1554-1568, v. XIX 1568-1585;
v. XXII 1585-1594; v. XXIV 1594-1602; v. XXVI 1603-1611, v. XXVIII
1612-1619; v. XXXII 1620-1627; v. XXXV 1626-1636.
Ireland a. Registry of Deeds, Abstracts of Wills 1708-85. b. Sir
Arthur E. Vicars, Index to the Prerogative Wills of Ireland,
1536-1810. c. William P. W. Phillimore, Indexes to Irish Wills.
Scotland a. David Dobson, Scottish American Wills 1650-1900. b.
-------, Scottish American Heirs 1683-1883.
Wales a. Nia Henson, Index of the Probate Records of the Bangor
Consistory Court.
· Barbados a. Joanne M. Sanders, Barbados Records Wills and
Administrations, 1639-1725.
Bermuda a. Clara F. E. Hallet Hollis, Early Bermuda Wills
1629-1835 Summarized
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