Orange County Indexed
Will of Peter (x) Hendricks
Will Book B, page 41 · dated 13 July 1786
Peter Hendricks named wife Amy, three sons and daughters; Amy Hendricks was executrix.
- Kind of paper
- Will
- Testator
- Peter (x) Hendricks (printed PETER (x) HENDRICKS)
- Dated
- 13 July 1786
- Proved
- Date not given
- A second reading
- Mark Chilton’s index of the will books gives the probate as August 1788. Check the will book to settle it.
- In the court minutes
- Family named
- Amy (wife); Isaac (son); Abraham (son); William (son); Ann Hendricks (daughter); Mary Hendricks Balander (daughter); Eliz. Hendricks (daughter)
- Executor
- Amy Hendricks
- Witnesses
- John Cabe; Thomas Reding
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 41.
- 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).
