Orange County Indexed
Will of John Fossett (signed John Faucette)
Will Book C, page 94 · dated 6 March 1797 · proved May 1796
John Fossett named his wife, son and daughter, devised a plantation, and appointed three executors.
- Kind of paper
- Will
- Testator
- John Fossett (signed John Faucette) (printed JOHN FOSSETT (signed John Faucette))
- Dated
- 6 March 1797
- Proved
- May 1796 court
- A second reading
- As the abstract prints them, the will was proved before it was dated, so one of the dates is wrong. Mark Chilton’s index of the will books gives the probate as May 1797. Check the will book to settle it.
- In the court minutes
- Family named
- Pherebe (wife); Thomas Fossett (son); Polly Fossett (daughter); Sam Fossett (my brother)
- Executors
- Thomas Cate; Ezra Cate; Sam Fossett (my brother)
- Witnesses
- Richard (x) Fossett; Thomas (x) Faucette
- Land
- plantation joining Jpseph Hastings
- Also named
- Jpseph Hastings (adjoining landowner)
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 94.
- 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).
