Orange County Indexed
Will of Elizabeth Paul
Will Book B, page 160 · proved February 1792
Elizabeth Paul named two daughters and six grandchildren and appointed Enoe Robert Fassetts executor.
- Kind of paper
- Will
- Testator
- Elizabeth Paul (printed ELIZABETH PAUL)
- Dated
- As printed: “Dated --”
- Proved
- February 1792 court
- A second reading
- Mark Chilton’s index of the will books gives the probate as February 1793. Check the will book to settle it.
- In the court minutes
- Family named
- Margaret Reddin (daughter); Elizabeth Gray (daughter); Elizabeth Carrigan (grandchild); William Reddin (grandchild); James Gray (grandchild); James Paul (grandchild); Elizabeth Gray (grandchild); Elizabeth Paul (grandchild)
- Executor
- Enoe Robert Fassetts
- Witnesses
- Francis Wilkinson; Samuel McCracken
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 160.
- 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).
