Orange County Indexed
Will of James Hunter
Will Book B, page 249 · dated 18 February 1794
James Hunter named his wife, brother and two other beneficiaries and appointed his unnamed wife sole executrix.
- Kind of paper
- Will
- Testator
- James Hunter (printed JAMES HUNTER)
- Dated
- 18 February 1794
- Proved
- Date not given
- A second reading
- Mark Chilton’s index of the will books gives the probate as February 1794. Check the will book to settle it.
- In the court minutes
- Family named
- Christian (wife); Andrew Hunter (brother)
- Also left something
- James Hunter Andrew; Richard Hunter
- Witnesses
- Reuben Harris; James Walker; Priscilla (x) Montgomery
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 249.
- 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).
