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Orange County Indexed

Power of attorney: Francis Strudwick to Henry Shepperd

Will Book B, page 285 · dated 27 October 1794

Francis Strudwick appointed Henry Shepperd to collect money or unnamed enslaved people due from Patterson.

Kind of paper
Power of attorney
Made by
Francis Strudwick (printed FRANCIS STRUDWICK), of Orange Co., N.C.
Dated
27 October 1794
Proved
Date not given
To
Henry Shepperd (of Orange Co., N.C.)
Enslaved people not named
Enslaved people
Places
State of South Carolina
Also named
Patterson (given name blank; of the State of South Carolina)

Reading note: Probate year incomplete; Patterson’s given name blank.

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 285.
  • 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).
  • Microfilm at the Orange County Public Library, Wall Local History Collection: reel 80001, “Record of Wills, 1752–1795, Vols. A, B” (State Archives film).
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