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Orange County Indexed

Will of Isaac (x) Greason

Will Book A, page 89 · dated 10 September 1768 · proved October 1768

Isaac Greason named wife Margaret, three sons and two daughters, left Beaver Creek land to Jacob, and appointed son Nicholas Greason sole executor.

Kind of paper
Will
Testator
Isaac (x) Greason (printed ISAAC (x) GREASON)
Dated
10 September 1768
Proved
October 1768 court
Family named
Margaret (wife); Nicholas (son); Jacob (son); John (son); Margaret Loew (daughter); Unitie Lionburger (daughter)
Executor
Nicholas Greason (son)
Witnesses
George Fogleman; John Oliver
Land
land on west of Beaver Creek
Places
Beaver 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 89.
  • 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).
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