Orange County Indexed
Will of Hugh Morrow
Will Book A, page 268 · dated 30 July 1780 · proved November 1783
Hugh Morrow named wife Sarah and children James and Mary; Sarah and neighbor John Murdock were executors.
- Kind of paper
- Will
- Testator
- Hugh Morrow (printed HUGH MORROW), of Cane Creek
- Dated
- 30 July 1780
- Proved
- November 1783 court
- In the court minutes
- Family named
- Sarah (wife); James (child; a minor); Mary (child)
- Executors
- Sarah (wife); John Murdock (friend and neighbor)
- Witnesses
- John Jenkinson; Richard Laughlin; Margaret Harper
- Places
- Cane Creek
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 268.
- 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).
