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Orange County Indexed

Will of Jean (x) Hall

Will Book B, page 174 · dated 10 September 1791 · proved May 1792

Jean Hall named four sons and four daughters and appointed two executors.

Kind of paper
Will
Testator
Jean (x) Hall (printed JEAN (x) HALL)
Dated
10 September 1791
Proved
May 1792 court
Family named
William Hall (son); John Hall (son); Robert Hall (son); Thomas Hall (son); Rebecca Kell (daughter); Mary Nichols (daughter); Sarah Hall (daughter); Rachel Hall (daughter)
Executors
Thos. Rountree; Robert Hall
Witnesses
Charles Rountree; Lydia Rountree

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 174.
  • 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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