Orange County Indexed
Will of John Patterson
Will Book B, page 128 · dated 10 July 1790 · proved May 1791
John Patterson named his wife and nine children and appointed his wife and son David executors.
- Kind of paper
- Will
- Testator
- John Patterson (printed JOHN PATTERSON)
- Dated
- 10 July 1790
- Proved
- May 1791 court
- Family named
- Margaret (wife); David (son); Isaac (son); William (son); James (son); John (son); Jean (daughter); Margaret Abbott (daughter); Mary Patterson (daughter); Agnes (daughter)
- Executors
- Margaret (wife); David (son)
- Witnesses
- Jacob ...?..; Nathaniel Matthews
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 B, page 128.
- 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).
