Orange County Indexed
Will of William Stroud
Will Book B, page 6 · dated 4 August 1786
William Stroud named wife Elizabeth, six sons and five daughters; his wife and friend John Hogan were executors.
- Kind of paper
- Will
- Testator
- William Stroud (printed WILLIAM STROUD)
- Dated
- 4 August 1786
- 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
- Elizabeth (wife); John Stroud (son); Anderson Stroud (son); Wm. Stroud (son); Marshal Stroud (son); Thomas Stroud (son); Dickson Stroud (son); Margaret Douglass (daughter); Mary Thrift (daughter); Salley King (daughter); Fanney Howell (daughter); Eliz. Stroud (daughter)
- Executors
- Elizabeth (wife); John Hogan (trusty friend)
- Witnesses
- William Willis; William Buckner; Mary Buckner
- Deeds that cite this paper
- Deed Book 5, page 399; Deed Book 9, page 190; Deed Book 9, page 191
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 6.
- 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).
