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Orange County Indexed

Will proved: Joseph Hardin, Benjamin Martin, Elizabeth Harlan

July 1754 · Orange County Court of Pleas and Quarter Sessions

Will of Joseph Hardin, proved by Benjamin Martin.

Kind of business
Will proved
Court
July 1754 term
People
In the will books

Reading note: The deceased is printed Hardin, while the executrix is Harlan; these spellings are retained without identifying either with the preceding page’s Harlan estate.

Names and places are given as the source writes them. This record has not been checked against the original minute book.

Where to find it

  • Folio and page 19-38'
  • Published abstract: Ruth Herndon Shields, Abstracts of the Minutes of the Court of Pleas and Quarter Sessions of Orange County, 1752–1766, page 12
  • Original: State Archives of North Carolina, Orange County court minutes (CR.073.301).
  • Microfilm at the Orange County Public Library, Wall Local History Collection: reel 30001, “County Court Minutes, 1752–1766” (State Archives film).
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