Orange County Indexed
Will of Isaac Holding
Will Book A, page 57 · dated 13 January 1767 · proved February 1767
Isaac Holding named his wife, father, brothers and sons, provided contingent land inheritances, and appointed John Douglas and Sarah Holding executors.
- Kind of paper
- Will
- Testator
- Isaac Holding (printed ISAAC HOLDING)
- Dated
- 13 January 1767
- Proved
- February 1767 court
- In the court minutes
- Family named
- Sarah (wife); Thomas Holding (son); Isaac Holding (son); Thomas Holding (father); John Douglass (well beloved brother); Thomas Holding (loving brother); John Kelly (beloved brother)
- Also left something
- Margaret Douglas (daughter of John Douglas); Ann Holderness (daughter of John Holderness); Fanny Wood (daughter of John Wood); John Holderness (son of Thomas Holderness, Sr.); Thomas Kelly (son of John Kelly)
- Executors
- John Douglas; Sarah Holding
- Witnesses
- John McVinchey; Benjamin Fincher; Richard Fincher
- Deeds that cite this paper
- Deed Book 6, page 63; Deed Book 6, page 65
- Land
- land
- Also named
- John Douglas; John Holderness; John Wood; Thomas Holderness, Sr.
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 57.
- 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).
