Orange County Indexed
Will of John (x) Trousdale
Will Book A, page 293 · dated 3 August 1779 · proved February 1784
John Trousdale named wife Elizabeth, children and sons William and John as executors.
- Kind of paper
- Will
- Testator
- John (x) Trousdale (printed JOHN (x) TROUSDALE), of Orange County, "Taylor"
- Dated
- 3 August 1779
- Proved
- February 1784 court
- A second reading
- Mark Chilton’s index of the will books gives the date as 2 August 1779. Check the will book to settle it.
- In the court minutes
- Family named
- Elizabeth (wife); William (son); James (son); John (son); Margaret (daughter); Mary (daughter)
- Executors
- William (son); John (son)
- Witnesses
- James Wilkins; Jno. T. Sharp; Wm. Phillips
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 293.
- 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).
