Orange County Indexed
Will of Sarah Morgan
Will Book B, page 3 · dated 17 October 1785
Sarah Morgan named sons, daughters, granddaughter Charlotte and unnamed surviving grandchildren; Benjamin Yeargin and Daniel Hogan were executors.
- Kind of paper
- Will
- Testator
- Sarah Morgan (printed SARAH MORGAN)
- Dated
- 17 October 1785
- Proved
- Date not given
- A second reading
- Mark Chilton’s index of the will books gives the probate as February 1787. Check the will book to settle it.
- In the court minutes
- Family named
- John Morgan (son); Hardy Morgan (son); Anne Hart (daughter); Sarah Yeargan (daughter); Sarah Yeargin (she); Charlotte Yeargin (granddaughter); Benjamin (wife of)
- Executors
- Benjamin Yeargin; Daniel Hogan
- Witnesses
- Robt. Campbell; Nicholas Quesenbury; Dan Boothe
- Also named
- Ben Yeargin
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 3.
- 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).
