Will of Alexander (x) Coharon (?)

Alexander Coharon named wife Easter, an unborn child, four sons and four daughters; wife Easter and son John were executors.

Kind of paper

Will

Testator

Alexander (x) Coharon (?) (printed ALEXANDER (x) COHARON (?))

Dated

28 October 1775

Proved

May 1776 court

Family named

Easter (Wife); John (eldest son); James (second son); Alexander (son); Samuel (son); Minny (daughter; eldest; wife of Joseph Guy); Jean (daughter); Easter (daughter); Esibal (daughter); Joseph Guy (wife of)

Executors

Easter (wife); John (son)

Witnesses

Ezicaia (x) Witt; John Moor

Land

land purchased of Barnabas Grims; plantation purchased of Richard Parsons

Also named

Barnabas Grims; Richard Parsons

Reading note: Testator surname COHARON (?) uncertain in source; Richard Parsons surname inserted above line break.

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 199.
• 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).