Orange County Indexed
Will of John Vaughan
Will Book A, page 357 · dated 9 September 1785 · proved February 1786
John Vaughan named wife Catron and appointed his wife and James Walker executors.
- Kind of paper
- Will
- Testator
- John Vaughan (printed JOHN VAUGHAN)
- Dated
- 9 September 1785
- Proved
- February 1786 court
- Family named
- Catron (wife)
- Executor
- James Walker
- Witnesses
- James Vaughan; Thomas (x) King
Reading note: Probate date questioned in source.
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 357.
- 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).
