Orange County Indexed
Will of Nathaniel (x) Lewis
Will Book B, page 50 · dated 11 November 1788
Nathaniel Lewis named wife Elizabeth, two sons and four daughters; his wife and son John were executors.
- Kind of paper
- Will
- Testator
- Nathaniel (x) Lewis (printed NATHANIEL (x) LEWIS)
- Dated
- 11 November 1788
- Proved
- Date not given
- Family named
- Elizabeth (Wife); John Lewis (son); William Lewis (son); John (son); Lydia (daughter); Sarah (daughter); Rebeccah (daughter); Mary (daughter)
- Executors
- Elizabeth (wife); John (son)
- Witnesses
- John Wood; Anne Wood
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 50.
- 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).
