Orange County Indexed
Will of Martha Strudwick
Will Book D, page 154 · dated 6 August 1803 · proved August 1805
Martha Strudwick provided for grandson Samuel Strudwick, with Edmund as alternate, and Elizabeth Kirby; son Wm. F. Strudwick was sole executor.
- Kind of paper
- Will
- Testator
- Martha Strudwick (printed MARTHA STRUDWICK)
- Dated
- 6 August 1803
- Proved
- August 1805 court
- Family named
- Wm. F. Strudwick (son); Samuel Strudwick (grandson; when he arrives at twenty)
- Also left something
- Edmund (in case of Samuel’s death); Elizabeth Kirby (if she is with me at my death)
- Executor
- Wm. F. Strudwick (son)
- Witness
- Elizabeth Sheppard
- Money and goods
- Elizabeth Kirby $50 if she is with me at my death
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 154.
- 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).
