Orange County Indexed
Will of Nicholas Holt
Will Book B, page 17 · dated 5 July 1787
Nicholas Holt named wife Eve, four sons, daughter Rachel and grandson Michael; Francis Holt and Nicholas Holt were executors.
- Kind of paper
- Will
- Testator
- Nicholas Holt (printed NICHOLAS HOLT)
- Dated
- 5 July 1787
- Proved
- Date not given
- A second reading
- Mark Chilton’s index of the will books gives the probate as August 1787. Check the will book to settle it.
- In the court minutes
- Family named
- Eve (wife); Francis Holt (son); John Holt (son); Nicholas Holt (son); James Holt (son); Rachel Holt (daughter); Michael Holt (grandson)
- Executors
- Francis Holt; Nicholas Holt
- Witnesses
- Michael Holt; Joshua Holt
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 17.
- 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).
