Orange County Indexed
Will of John Pryor
Will Book A, page 160 · dated 28 September 1771 · proved January 1772
John Pryor named wife Margaret, sons, eight daughters and three grandchildren, devised land, and appointed his wife and two sons-in-law executors.
- Kind of paper
- Will
- Testator
- John Pryor (printed JOHN PRYOR)
- Dated
- 28 September 1771
- Proved
- January 1772 court
- Family named
- Margaret (wife); Robert (son); John Henry Pryor (son); Abner (son); Elizabeth Flournoy (daughter); Rhoda Stone (daughter); Leah Perkins (daughter); Mildred Womack (daughter); Lucy Tapley (daughter); Rachel Pope (daughter); Dorothy Pyror (daughter); Martha (daughter; when she comes of age); John Pryor (grandchild, son of Green Pryor); Betty Green Pryor (grandchild); John Pryor Smith (grandson)
- Executors
- William Stone (son-in-law); Margaret (wife); David Womack (son-in-law)
- Witnesses
- Burgis Harralson; Joseph Hicks; Peter Rogers
- Land
- tract in Granville County, 640 acres; tract I purchased of Hosea Tapley
- Places
- Granville County
- Also named
- Green Pryor; Hosea Tapley
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 160.
- 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).
