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Orange County Indexed

Will of Isaac Sebastion or Surbasten

Will Book B, page 193 · dated 5 June 1792

Isaac Sebastion directed his estate to support his wife and her family and appointed Stephen Conger executor.

Kind of paper
Will
Testator
Isaac Sebastion or Surbasten (printed ISAAC SEBASTION or SURBASTEN)
Dated
5 June 1792
Proved
1792 (no day or month given)
A second reading
Mark Chilton’s index of the will books gives the testator as Isaac Sebastion. Check the will book to settle it.
Family named
Sarah (wife)
Executor
Stephen Conger (friend)
Witnesses
John Eubanks; Samuel Williams

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 193.
  • 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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