Orange County Indexed
Will of Christopher Mier
Will Book A, page 194 · dated 17 August 1775 · proved November 1775
Christopher Mier mentioned his unnamed wife and children and named eldest son George; Adam and Jacob Grissom were executors.
- Kind of paper
- Will
- Testator
- Christopher Mier (printed CHRISTOPHER MIER)
- Dated
- 17 August 1775
- Proved
- November 1775 court
- A second reading
- Mark Chilton’s index of the will books gives the probate as May 1775. Check the will book to settle it.
- Family named
- George (eldest son)
- Executors
- Adam I..?....; Jacob Grissom
- Witnesses
- George Fogleman; George Cortner (?); Doolin Law
Reading note: Executor printed Adam I..?...., incomplete surname; witness George Cortner (?) uncertain.
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 194.
- 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).
