Orange County Indexed
Will of Anne Hooper
Will Book C, page 56 · proved August 1795
Anne Hooper named two sons, a daughter and grandson and appointed her three children executors.
- Kind of paper
- Will
- Testator
- Anne Hooper (printed ANNE HOOPER)
- Dated
- As printed: “Dated --”
- Proved
- August 1795 court
- A second reading
- Mark Chilton’s index of the will books gives the date as 31 March 1793. Check the will book to settle it.
- Family named
- William (son); Thomas (son); Elizabeth Watters or Walters (daughter); Elizabeth (daughter); Henry Walters (grandson)
- Executors
- William (son); Thomas (son); Elizabeth (daughter)
- Witnesses
- Gavin Alves; Sam’l Benton
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 56.
- 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).
