Will of Mary (x) Walton

Mary Walton named three daughters and her late husband and appointed her son-in-law Thomas Bane sole executor.

Kind of paper

Will

Testator

Mary (x) Walton (printed MARY (x) WALTON)

Dated

19 June 1792

Proved

August 1792 court

Family named

Nathaniel Walton (my late husband; He died in 1786 ?); Mary Collins (daughter); Jemima Ward (daughter); Keziah Bane (daughter); Thomas Bane (son-in-law)

Executor

Thomas Bane (son-in-law)

Witnesses

Thomas Armstrong; William Clarke

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 209.
• 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).