Will of George (x) Friddle

George Friddle named wife Mary, older children receiving shillings, and three youngest children; friends Ludwick Allbright Junr. and Jacob Graves were executors.

Kind of paper

Will

Testator

George (x) Friddle (printed GEORGE (x) FRIDDLE)

Dated

10 November 1800

Proved

August 1805 court

Family named

Mary (wife); Casper (son); John (son); Henry Friddle (son); Caty Garrot (daughter; wife of Averot Gattot); Peggy Lue (daughter; wife of Michael Lue); Caty Friddle (my three youngest children); Purley Friddle (my three youngest children); Martin J. Friddle (my three youngest children); Averot Gattot (husband of Caty Garrot); Michael Lue (husband of Peggy Lue)

Executors

Ludwick Allbright Junr. (friends); Jacob Graves (friends)

Witnesses

Michael Holt; John ...land ?

Money and goods

Casper, John and Henry Friddle 1 shilling each; Caty Garrot 1 shilling; Peggy Lue 1 shilling

Reading note: John ...land ? witness incomplete as printed. Garrot / Gattot spellings retained; shared surname 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 158.
• Abstract: Ruth Herndon Shields, Abstracts of Wills Recorded in Orange County, North Carolina, 1800–1850 (1958), page 26.
• 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).