Orange County Indexed
Will of John Pike
Will Book A, page 176 · dated 30 March 1771 · proved August 1774
John Pike named wife Abigail, three sons and six daughters; his wife and son John were executors.
- Kind of paper
- Will
- Testator
- John Pike (printed JOHN PIKE)
- Dated
- 30 March 1771
- Proved
- August 1774 court
- Family named
- Abigail (wife); John (son); Samuel (son); Nathan (son; youngest); Sarah Piggot (my six daughters); Anne Hughes (my six daughters); Susannah Lee (my six daughters); Elizabeth Stuart (my six daughters); Ruth Winner (my six daughters); Rachel Williams (my six daughters)
- Executors
- Abigail (wife); John (son)
- Witnesses
- Thomas Hill; Priscilla Pike; Obediah R...?...
Reading note: Witness Obediah R...?... surname incomplete.
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 176.
- 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).
