Orange County Indexed
Will of George Doherty
Will Book B, page 236 · dated 10 October 1791 · proved August 1793
George Doherty left equal shares to his wife and her three daughters and appointed two executors.
- Kind of paper
- Will
- Testator
- George Doherty (printed GEORGE DOHERTY)
- Dated
- 10 October 1791
- Proved
- August 1793 court
- Family named
- Mary (my wife); Polly W. Burke (her three daughters); Frances Daugherty (her three daughters); Nelly Daugherty (her three daughters)
- Executors
- Mary (wife); James Gillespie (Esq. of Duplin County)
- Witnesses
- James Grant; John Casey
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 236.
- 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).
