Orange County Indexed
Will of James Hall
Will Book C, page 82 · dated 22 March 1796 · proved August 1796
James Hall named his wife and nine children, left tools and a plantation to sons, and appointed Jehu executor.
- Kind of paper
- Will
- Testator
- James Hall (printed JAMES HALL)
- Dated
- 22 March 1796
- Proved
- August 1796 court
- Family named
- Mary Hall (wife); Levi (son); Jehu (son); Jehu Hall (son); Mary Garrison (daughter); Lydia Faucette (daughter); Tamar Server (daughter); Deborah Davis (daughter); Margaret Garrison (daughter); Elizabeth Hall (daughter); Phebe Anderson (daughter)
- Executor
- Jehu Hall (son)
- Witnesses
- Hardy Hurdle; Isaac Hall; Garrit Garrison
- Money and goods
- blacksmith tools; plantation
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 82.
- 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).
