Orange County Indexed
Will of John Mordak
Will Book A, page 248 · dated 25 March 1781 · proved August 1782
John Mordak named pregnant wife Mary, an unborn child and minor son Robert; Robert Gray and Mary Mordak were executors.
- Kind of paper
- Will
- Testator
- John Mordak (printed JOHN MORDAK), of the Parish of Saint Mathews
- Dated
- 25 March 1781
- Proved
- August 1782 court
- Family named
- Mary (wife; is pregnant); Robert (son; a minor)
- Executors
- Robert Gray; Mary Mordak
- Witnesses
- James Mordak; Margaret (x) Griffin
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 248.
- 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).
