Orange County Indexed
Will of Stephen Norton
Will Book A, page 179 · dated 3 July 1773 · proved August 1774
Stephen Norton named wife Jane, three sons and three daughters; Abam Armstead and John Armstrong were executors.
- Kind of paper
- Will
- Testator
- Stephen Norton (printed STEPHEN NORTON)
- Dated
- 3 July 1773
- Proved
- August 1774 court
- A second reading
- Mark Chilton’s index of the will books gives the date as 2 July 1773. Check the will book to settle it.
- Family named
- Jane (Wife); John (son); William (son); Richard (son); Anne Norton (daughter); Margaret Norton (daughter); Elizabeth Norton (daughter)
- Executors
- Abam. Armstead; John Armstrong
- Witnesses
- Wm. Bailey Smith; John Middlebrooks; Richard Boggass
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 179.
- 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).
