Orange County Indexed
Will of Michael Holt
Will Book C, page 149 · dated 23 January 1798 · proved August 1799
Michael Holt named his wife and ten children and appointed his wife and two sons executors.
- Kind of paper
- Will
- Testator
- Michael Holt (printed MICHAEL HOLT)
- Dated
- 23 January 1798
- Proved
- August 1799 court
- In the court minutes
- Family named
- Jean (wife); Joseph Holt (son; children by first wife); Joshua Holt (son); Isaac Holt (son); Michael Holt (son); William Holt (son); Isaac (son); Joshua (son); Margaret Powell (daughter; children by first wife); Elizabeth Smith (daughter; children by first wife); Sarah Hardin (daughter); Mary Thompson (daughter); Catherine Holt (daughter)
- Executors
- Jean (wife); Isaac (son); Joshua (son)
- Witnesses
- J. Scott; Wm. Rainey; John Holt
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 149.
- 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).
