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Orange County Indexed

Will of Edmund Hardin

Will Book A, page 124 · dated 20 August 1769

Edmund Hardin divided his estate among wife Mary, three unnamed children and an unborn child; Mary and Thomas Cate were executors.

Kind of paper
Will
Testator
Edmund Hardin (printed EDMUND HARDIN)
Dated
20 August 1769
Proved
Date not given
Family named
Mary (wife)
Executors
Mary (wife); Thomas Cate
Witnesses
John Baskett; Jonathan Hardin; Moses Rice

Names and places are given as the abstract writes them, spelling and all. This record has not been checked against the will book.

Where to find it

  • Orange County Will Book A, page 124.
  • Abstract: Ruth Herndon Shields, Abstracts of Wills Recorded 1752 through 1800 in Orange County, North Carolina, Will Books A, B and C (Davie Poplar Chapter NSDAR, revised edition 1966).
  • Also listed in Mark Chilton, “Wills Recorded in Orange County, NC 1756–1893” (Wandering through the NC Piedmont, 2019), an index of the will books with references to the court minutes.
  • Microfilm at the Orange County Public Library, Wall Local History Collection: reel 80001, “Record of Wills, 1752–1795, Vols. A, B” (State Archives film).
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