Orange County Indexed
Will of John Gray
Will Book A, page 182 · dated 19 February 1775 · proved May 1775
John Gray left Seven Mile Creek land to Thomas Hart and appointed Thomas Hart, David Hart and Nathaniel Hart executors.
- Kind of paper
- Will
- Testator
- John Gray (printed JOHN GRAY)
- Dated
- 19 February 1775
- Proved
- May 1775 court
- Also left something
- Thomas Hart (Colonel)
- Executors
- Thomas Hart (Col.); David Hart (Maj.); Nathaniel Hart
- Witnesses
- John Riley; James Weeks; Henry Hastings
- Land
- land on Seven Mile Creek, beginning date 25 March 1752 from Lord Granville.
- Places
- Seven Mile Creek
- Also named
- Granville (Lord)
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 182.
- 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).
