Orange County Indexed
Will of Susannah (x) Durham
Will Book C, page 137 · dated 30 April 1799 · proved May 1799
Susannah Durham named sons, daughters and two grandchildren and appointed Lysias Durham executor.
- Kind of paper
- Will
- Testator
- Susannah (x) Durham (printed SUSANNAH (x) DURHAM)
- Dated
- 30 April 1799
- Proved
- May 1799 court
- Family named
- Matthew Durham (son); Lysias Durham (son); Mark Durham (son); Mary Mechum (daughter); Jane (daughter); Susannah Piper (daughter Jane’s children); Sarah Piper (daughter Jane’s children)
- Executor
- Lysias Durham
- Witnesses
- Alexander Hatch; Frances (x) Durham; Oney Hutson
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 137.
- 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).
