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Orange County Indexed

Will or bequest, 13 March 1804

Jehu Whitted's will provided for Fanny's schooling and directed that she be freed. Proved in May 1804.

Date
13 March 1804
Record
Will or bequest
Citation
Orange County Will Book D, p. 136
From
Jehu Whitted
Note
In 1814 the executor of Jehu Whitted's estate freed a woman named Fanny, about 18 (record d0984); that deed probably carried out this will.

People named

Name as recordedAgeNotes
Fanny

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: Will of Jehu Whitted

Related records

Records on the same deed-book page, or that refer to one another, or a will and a later record that may concern the same person (a shared first name alone does not show that). Some are copies of the same document recorded twice.

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 will book page.

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