Orange County Indexed
Will of James Fruit or Fruth
Will Book D, page 10 · dated 25 January 1794 · proved November 1800
James Fruit named his wife and six children and appointed John Fruth executor.
- Kind of paper
- Will
- Testator
- James Fruit or Fruth (printed JAMES FRUIT or FRUTH)
- Dated
- 25 January 1794
- Proved
- November 1800 court
- A second reading
- Mark Chilton’s index of the will books gives the testator as James Fruit. Check the will book to settle it.
- Family named
- Grizel (wife; spelled Girzel); John (son); Elinor (daughter); Jennett (daughter); Hannah (daughter); Nancy (daughter); Mary (daughter)
- Executor
- John Fruth
- Witnesses
- Moses Crawford; Ann Crawford
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 D, page 10.
- 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).
