Orange County Indexed
Will of Michael Holt
Will Book A, page 76 · dated June 1765 · proved November 1767
Michael Holt named wife Elizabeth, son Peter and unnamed children; Michael Holt Junior and Nicholas Holt Junior were executors.
- Kind of paper
- Will
- Testator
- Michael Holt
- Dated
- June 1765
- Proved
- November 1767 court
- A second reading
- Mark Chilton’s index of the will books gives the date as 31 June 1765. Check the will book to settle it.
- Family named
- Elizabeth (wife); Peter (son)
- Executors
- Michael Holt, Junior (my dear son); Nicholas Holt, Junior
- Witnesses
- John Butler; William Carlisle
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 76.
- 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).
