Will of Peter (x) Efland

Peter Efland named his wife, two sons and five other beneficiaries and appointed two friends executors.

Kind of paper

Will

Testator

Peter (x) Efland (printed PETER (x) EFLAND)

Dated

4 January 1793

Proved

May 1793 court

Family named

Catherine (wife); Daniel Efland (son); John Efland (son)

Also left something

Catherine Noe; Mary Gibbs; Elizabeth Nance; Sarah Graves; Philis Sharp

Executors

John Albright (friends); Obed Green (friends)

Witnesses

John Bullock; James Holmes

Money and goods

5 shillings

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 234.
• 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).