Orange County Indexed
Will of Martin Lay
Will Book A, page 207 · dated 15 July 1777 · proved May 1779
Martin Lay named wife Catherreney, sons Henry and George and daughter Mary; Jacob Allbright and George Lay were executors.
- Kind of paper
- Will
- Testator
- Martin Lay (printed MARTIN LAY)
- Dated
- 15 July 1777
- Proved
- May 1779 court
- A second reading
- Mark Chilton’s index of the will books gives the testator as Martin Loy. Check the will book to settle it.
- Family named
- Catherreney (Wife); Henry (son); George (son); Mary (daughter)
- Executors
- Jacob Allbright; George Lay
- Witnesses
- Henry Garhurt; Isaac (x) Sharp
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 207.
- 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).
