Orange County Indexed
Will of Isaac Allen
Will Book A, page 156 · dated 24 November 1773 · proved January 1772
Isaac Allen named wife Mary and unnamed children; Mary Allen was executrix.
- Kind of paper
- Will
- Testator
- Isaac Allen (printed ISAAC ALLEN)
- Dated
- 24 November 1773
- Proved
- January 1772 court
- A second reading
- As the abstract prints them, the will was proved before it was dated, so one of the dates is wrong. Check the will book to settle it.
- Family named
- Mary (wife)
- Executor
- Mary Allen
- Witnesses
- John Rainey; Wm. Rainey
Reading note: Both dates questioned in source; writing 1773 falls after probate 1772. Preserved without reconciling.
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 156.
- 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).
