Orange County Indexed
Will of John Steel
Will Book B, pages 251–254 · dated 20 August 1793 · proved November 1793
John Steel named his wife and five minor children and appointed his wife and Joseph Hodge executors.
- Kind of paper
- Will
- Testator
- John Steel (printed JOHN STEEL)
- Dated
- 20 August 1793
- Proved
- November 1793 court
- Family named
- Mary (wife); Joseph Steel (son; under 20 years of age); Agnes (daughter; youngest; under 16 years of age); Elizabeth Steel (daughter; under 16 years of age); Mary Steel (daughter; 2nd; under 16 years of age); Sarah (daughter; under 16 years of age)
- Executors
- Mary (wife); Joseph Hodge (trusty friend)
- Witnesses
- Wm Steel; John Pickard; Charles Clendennin
- Also named
- Margery Carrigan
- In the paper’s words
- “right of Margery Carrigan’s third”
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 251–254.
- 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).
