Orange County Indexed
Will of Joseph Sutton
Will Book A, page 184 · dated 20 March 1775
Joseph Sutton left his estate to Daniel Hughes; executor Gabriel Hughes was to hold it until Daniel reached twenty-one.
- Kind of paper
- Will
- Testator
- Joseph Sutton (printed JOSEPH SUTTON)
- Dated
- 20 March 1775
- Proved
- Date not given
- Also left something
- Daniel Hughes (oldest son of Gabriel Hughes)
- Executor
- Gabriel Hughes
- Witnesses
- Shrewood Parish; James Dickings; Sherwood James
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 184.
- 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).
