Orange County Indexed
Will of Nathaniel Patterson
Will Book B, page 132 · dated 25 December 1789 · proved May 1791
Nathaniel Patterson named his wife, children and grandson and appointed four executors.
- Kind of paper
- Will
- Testator
- Nathaniel Patterson (printed NATHANIEL PATTERSON)
- Dated
- 25 December 1789
- Proved
- May 1791 court
- Family named
- Issabel (wife); William (son); Jenny Ward (daughter); Margaret Swift (daughter; deceased); Susannah Ray (daughter); Elizabeth Baker (daughter); Mary (daughter); John Ward (son of my daughter Margaret Swift deceased); John Ray (my son-in-law)
- Executors
- Issabel (wife); William (son); John Ray (my son-in-law); Issabel Ray
- Witnesses
- William Hodges (Jr.); Andrew Murdock
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 132.
- 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).
