Orange County Indexed
Will of John Christmas
Will Book A, page 264 · dated 11 August 1783 · proved November 1783
John Christmas named wife Mary, children and grandson Henry Christmas, distributed creek lands, and appointed Mary and sons Richard and Robert executors.
- Kind of paper
- Will
- Testator
- John Christmas (printed JOHN CHRISTMAS), planter
- Dated
- 11 August 1783
- Proved
- November 1783 court
- In the court minutes
- Family named
- Mary (wife); Thomas (son); John (son); William (son); Nathaniel (son); Richard (son); Robert (young sons; all minors); James (young sons; all minors); Charles (young sons; all minors); Mary (daughter); Elizabeth (daughter); Heneritta (daughter); Ann Pickat ? or Peeler ? (daughter); Henry Christmas (grandson, son of John, dec’d)
- Executors
- Mary (wife); Richard (son); Robert (son)
- Witnesses
- Richard Christmas; Wm. Richards; James J. Pickat
- Deeds that cite this paper
- Deed Book 6, page 227
- Land
- plantation where I now live, with all land on S side of Cane Creek & below Mockasson branch; land on N side of Cane Creek - near mouth of Richland Branch with the land where Thomas Mason formerly lived; land in Warren County adjoining land formerly Charles Allen’s
- Places
- Cane Creek; Mockasson branch; Richland Branch; Warren County
- Also named
- John (dec’d; father of Henry Christmas); Thomas Mason; Charles Allen; James Pickhart (The will was proved by; note on PDF page 46)
Reading note: Daughter Ann Pickat ? or Peeler ? uncertain. Probate witness note on preceding PDF page 46 spells James Pickhart, versus James J. Pickat here.
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 264.
- 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).
