Orange County Indexed
Will or bequest, 1797
Martha Nail's paper directed that Lucy and her children be freed when the law allowed, and asked her son-in-law Daniel Cloud to see to it. In May 1804 a jury found the paper was not her will.
- Date
- 1797
- Record
- Will or bequest
- Citation
- Unrecorded will papers (State Archives of North Carolina)
- From
- Martha Nail
- People whose names were not recorded
- Lucy's children
- Note
- The month of the paper is not clear. The court minutes record the contest (May 1804, OCPQS 6/534) and the grant of administration of Martha Nail's estate to Levi Whitted, who was allowed to sell her personal property. What became of Lucy is not recorded here.
People named
| Name as recorded | Age | Notes |
|---|---|---|
| Lucy |
Each name links to every record naming someone of that name. Family ties are listed only where the record states them.
Elsewhere in Orange County Indexed
- In the will books, our record of the paper from Ruth Herndon Shields’s abstract: Paper to free Lucy: Martha Nail
Sources
- Ruth Herndon Shields’s abstracts of the Orange County wills (Davie Poplar Chapter NSDAR, 1958 and 1966). The Register’s compilation does not include this record; Orange County Indexed made it from the abstract and wrote the description.
This page is drawn from abstracts and catalog entries, not from the original document. Before relying on it, check the original record.
