Orange County Indexed
Will of Mary Shepheard
Will Book A, page 17 · dated 5 May 1761 · proved August 1761
Mary Shepheard named her son, two daughters, granddaughter and Isaac Dennis, provided for unnamed children, and appointed John Dennis and John Slater executors.
- Kind of paper
- Will
- Testator
- Mary Shepheard (printed MARY SHEPHEARD), Widow
- Dated
- 5 May 1761
- Proved
- August 1761 court
- A second reading
- Mark Chilton’s index of the will books gives the probate as August 1760. Check the will book to settle it.
- Family named
- Jacob Slater (son); Mary Whitehead (daughter); Mary Dennis (daughter); Mary Dennis (granddaughter)
- Also left something
- Isaac Dennis
- Executors
- John Dennis; John Slater
- Witnesses
- Isaac Jackson; Samuel Maury; Samuel Jackson
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 17.
- 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).
