Orange County Indexed
Will of John (x) King
Will Book D, page 152 · dated 25 June 1805 · proved August 1805
John King provided for his unnamed wife and four children; father Thomas King was sole executor.
- Kind of paper
- Will
- Testator
- John (x) King (printed JOHN (x) KING)
- Dated
- 25 June 1805
- Proved
- August 1805 court
- Family named
- Thomas King (my two sons; under age); Jeremiah King (my two sons; under age); Calvin (two children); John (two children); Thomas King (father)
- Executor
- Thomas King (father)
- Witnesses
- Julius King; John King
- Money and goods
- Wife and two children Calvin and John five shillings each
- In the paper’s words
- “weak of body”
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 152.
- Abstract: Ruth Herndon Shields, Abstracts of Wills Recorded in Orange County, North Carolina, 1800–1850 (1958), page 25.
- 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).
