Orange County Indexed
Will of Francis Child
Will Book B, pages 204–208 · dated 1 May 1792 · proved August 1792
Francis Child named his wife, sons, daughter-in-law and natural son and appointed three executors.
- Kind of paper
- Will
- Testator
- Francis Child (printed FRANCIS CHILD)
- Dated
- 1 May 1792
- Proved
- August 1792 court
- In the court minutes
- Family named
- Frances (wife); Samuel (my 3 sons; eldest; under 21 years of age); Wilson (my 3 sons; under 21 years of age); Francis (my 3 sons; under 21 years of age); James Floyd (my natural son); Fanny McKerall (daughter-in-law)
- Executors
- Frances (wife); Robert Freeman; Jno. Casey
- Witnesses
- Jno. Casey; David Sloan; Will McKerall
- Deeds that cite this paper
- Deed Book 8, page 57
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, pages 204–208.
- 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).
