Orange County Indexed
Will of Benjamin Peelor
Will Book C, page 166 · dated 29 November 1799 · proved February 1800
Benjamin Peelor named his wife and eight children, devised land, and appointed his wife and friend executors.
- Kind of paper
- Will
- Testator
- Benjamin Peelor (printed BENJAMIN PEELOR)
- Dated
- 29 November 1799
- Proved
- February 1800 court
- In the court minutes
- Family named
- Christiana (wife); Samuel (son); Pleasant (son); Allen (son); Abner (son); Benjamin (son); Franky (daughter); Polly (daughter); Esther (daughter)
- Executors
- Christiana (wife); Jno. G. Rencher (friend)
- Witnesses
- J.G.Rencher; Christian Peelor
- Deeds that cite this paper
- Deed Book 11, page 201
- Land
- land known by the name of my Anthony place, as also Boney tract; lands bounded by lands of Jno. Holt, Thos. Browning and William Pickett; place where Thomas McFarland lives and Mark Browning’s place
- Also named
- Jno. Holt (land boundary or occupant); Thos. Browning (land boundary or occupant); William Pickett (land boundary or occupant); Thomas McFarland (land boundary or occupant); Mark Browning (land boundary or occupant)
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 166.
- 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).
