Orange County Indexed
Will of John Murray
Will Book D, page 12 · dated 9 September 1799 · proved November 1800
John Murray named his wife and eight children and appointed his wife and friend executors.
- Kind of paper
- Will
- Testator
- John Murray (printed JOHN MURRAY)
- Dated
- 9 September 1799
- Proved
- November 1800 court
- Family named
- Jean Murray (wife); Jean (wife); Thomas (son); John (son); Joseph (son); Rebekah (daughter); Mary (daughter); Elizabeth (daughter); Jean (daughter); Lydia (daughter)
- Executors
- Jean (wife); Jesse Towel (friend)
- Witnesses
- Nathan Dicks; Isaac Harvey; Jacob Marshall
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 12.
- 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).
