Orange County Indexed
Will of John Piper
Will Book C, page 122 · dated 27 May 1798 · proved November 1798
John Piper named his daughter, son and three other beneficiaries, mentioned other daughters, and appointed John Piper sole executor.
- Kind of paper
- Will
- Testator
- John Piper (printed JOHN PIPER)
- Dated
- 27 May 1798
- Proved
- November 1798 court
- In the court minutes
- Family named
- John Piper (son); Mary Brown (daughter)
- Also left something
- Sarah Findley; Ruth Brown; Jemima Cabe
- Executor
- John Piper
- Witnesses
- Samuel Piper; Wm. Cabe; Stephen Scarlet
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 C, page 122.
- 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 80002, “Record of Wills, 1794–1822, Vols. C, D” (State Archives film).
