Orange County Indexed
Will of George Herndon
Will Book C, page 85 · dated 8 May 1796 · proved August 1796
George Herndon named his wife, thirteen children and grandson and appointed three executors.
- Kind of paper
- Will
- Testator
- George Herndon (printed GEORGE HERNDON)
- Dated
- 8 May 1796
- Proved
- August 1796 court
- In the court minutes
- Family named
- Sarah (wife); James (son); George (son); Zachariah (son); Reuben (son); Edmund (son); Lewis (son); Mary Roberts (daughter); Ruth Roberts (daughter); Salley McCoy (daughter); Betty Cole (daughter); Ester Barbee (daughter); Delilah Rhodes (daughter); Maryanne Trice (daughter); George Roberts (grandson)
- Executors
- Sarah (wife); Zachariah Herndon; James Herndon
- Witnesses
- Joseph Booth; Jos. Bilbo; David (x) George
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 85.
- 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).
