Orange County Indexed
Will of Andrew Harrison
Will Book A, page 140 · dated 16 May 1773 · proved May 1774
Andrew Harrison named wife Jane, four sons and five daughters; William and Thomas had already received shares; four men were executors.
- Kind of paper
- Will
- Testator
- Andrew Harrison (printed ANDREW HARRISON)
- Dated
- 16 May 1773
- Proved
- May 1774 court
- Family named
- Jane (Wife); Ninian (son); Andrew (youngest son); William (son); Thomas (son); Milley Moore (daughter); Elizabeth Harrison (daughter); Anne Ware (daughter); Molly (daughter); Jane (daughter)
- Executors
- Wm. Harrison; Thomas Harrison; John Ware; Wm. Moore
- Witnesses
- Robert Payne; Charles Burton
- Money and goods
- 1 shilling, already having received their part
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 140.
- 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).
