Orange County Indexed
Will of Nathaniel Walton
Will Book A, page 131 · dated 31 July 1771
Nathaniel Walton named wife Mary, only surviving son Peter and three daughters; Mary and Peter were executors.
- Kind of paper
- Will
- Testator
- Nathaniel Walton (printed NATHANIEL WALTON)
- Dated
- 31 July 1771
- Proved
- Date not given
- Family named
- Mary (Wife); Peter (only son now living); Mary (daughter); Jemima (daughter); Keziah (daughter)
- Executors
- Mary (wife); Peter (son)
- Witnesses
- William Durbin; John Reeves; Lancelot Johnston
Reading note: William Durbin, John Reeves and Lancelot Johnston appear after executors without role label; provisionally witnesses.
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 131.
- 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).
