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Orange County Indexed

Wills known from Grimes

5 wills and papers, in the order of the book.

Five Orange County wills of 1755 to 1759 known from J. Bryan Grimes’s North Carolina will abstracts, which Shields copied into her first volume because most of the originals are lost.

All will books

Two mice reading back to back against a leaf, with the hand-lettered words Friends of the Orange County Public Library
Illustration by Caldecott Medalist Matthew Cordell, gifted to the Friends 2026