Orange County Indexed
Will of Samuel Parks
Will Book B, page 37
Samuel Parks named wife Mary, children and grandsons, ordered sale of 100 acres, and appointed Mary, John Robinson and William Rainey executors.
- Kind of paper
- Will
- Testator
- Samuel Parks (printed SAMUEL PARKS)
- Dated
- As printed: “Dated --”
- Proved
- Date not given
- Family named
- Mary Vaughan Parks (wife); Mary (wife); Thomas (son); Samuel (son); Alexander (son); John (son); James (son); Tine (daughter); Nancy (daughter); William (she has a son, Tine); Alexander (she has a son, Nancy)
- Executors
- Mary (wife); John Robinson; William Rainey
- Witness
- William Rainey
- Land
- 100 acres of land adjoining James Bracken on Stony Creek
- Places
- Stony Creek
- Also named
- James Bracken
Reading note: Daughters’ sons given as William and Alexander followed by name not stated; interpreted missing surnames, preserving given names only.
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 37.
- 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).
