Orange County Indexed
Will of Catherine Lockhart
Will Book B, page 194 · dated 24 August 1786
Catherine Lockhart named her son and five daughters and appointed her son and son-in-law executors.
- Kind of paper
- Will
- Testator
- Catherine Lockhart (printed CATHERINE LOCKHART), of the town of Hillsborough, N.C.
- Dated
- 24 August 1786
- Proved
- 1792 (no day or month given)
- A second reading
- Mark Chilton’s index of the will books gives the probate as November 1792. Check the will book to settle it.
- Family named
- William Lockhart (son); William (son); Catherine Roads (daughter); Jean Holt (daughter); Sarah Parker (daughter); Elizabeth Mucklejohn (daughter); Mary (?) Smith (daughter); James Parker (son-in-law)
- Executors
- William (son); James Parker (son-in-law)
- Witnesses
- John Allison; William Kennedy; Martin Palmer
Reading note: Source questions Mary (?) Smith; probate month absent.
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 194.
- 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).
