Orange County Indexed
Will of David Copeland
Will Book C, page 163 · dated 7 March 1799 · proved February 1800
David Copeland named his wife and five children and appointed two sons executors.
- Kind of paper
- Will
- Testator
- David Copeland (printed DAVID COPELAND)
- Dated
- 7 March 1799
- Proved
- February 1800 court
- Family named
- Elizabeth (wife); David (son); Douglass (son); Hugh (son); John (son); Douglass Copeland (son); Elizabeth Nunn (daughter)
- Executors
- David (son); Douglass Copeland (son)
- Witnesses
- John Wood; Isaac Holden; John Holden
Reading note: Executors surname printed once after Douglass; retained as printed.
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 163.
- 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).
