Orange County Indexed
Will of George Waggoner
Will Book A, page 231 · dated 2 April 1781 · proved August 1781
George Waggoner named wife Mary, two minor daughters and father Henry Waggoner, described land, and appointed Mary Waggoner and Robert Berry executors.
- Kind of paper
- Will
- Testator
- George Waggoner (printed GEORGE WAGGONER)
- Dated
- 2 April 1781
- Proved
- August 1781 court
- A second reading
- Mark Chilton’s index of the will books gives the probate as November 1781. Check the will book to settle it.
- Family named
- Mary (wife); Elizabeth (daughter; both minors); Ann (daughter; both minors); Henry Waggoner (father)
- Executors
- Mary Waggoner; Robert Berry
- Witnesses
- Step. Smyth; George Clower; James Waggoner
- Land
- land adjoining his line and Robert McCaul's line
- Also named
- Robert McCaul
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 231.
- 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).
