Orange County Indexed
Will of John (x) Carrington
Will Book D, page 110 · dated 15 February 1803 · proved November 1803
John Carrington left his estate to wife Mary for life and a bed to son Thomas; sons Nath’l Carington and Ephriam were executors.
- Kind of paper
- Will
- Testator
- John (x) Carrington (printed JOHN (x) CARRINGTON)
- Dated
- 15 February 1803
- Proved
- November 1803 court
- Family named
- Mary (wife); Thomas Carington (son); Nath'l Carington (my two sons); Ephriam (my two sons)
- Executors
- Nath'l Carington (my two sons); Ephriam (my two sons)
- Witnesses
- Jesse Rice ?; Benjamin (x) Carington
- Money and goods
- Thomas Carington 1 bed and furniture
- In the paper’s words
- “weak in body”
Reading note: CARRINGTON maker and Carington relatives retained; Jesse Rice ? uncertain as printed. Names listed with shared surnames were not expanded.
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 110.
- Abstract: Ruth Herndon Shields, Abstracts of Wills Recorded in Orange County, North Carolina, 1800–1850 (1958), page 18.
- 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).
