Orange County Indexed
Will of Francis Wilkinson
Will Book D, page 174 · dated 26 September 1803 · proved August 1806
Francis Wilkinson mentioned six children but named sons John, William, and David; sons John and David were executors.
- Kind of paper
- Will
- Testator
- Francis Wilkinson (printed FRANCIS WILKINSON)
- Dated
- 26 September 1803
- Proved
- August 1806 court
- Family named
- John (son); William (son); David (son)
- Executors
- John (son); David (son)
- Witnesses
- Joseph Thompson; ..?.. Hart; Thos. McCracken
Reading note: Witness ...?.. Hart given name illegible in source. 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 174.
- Abstract: Ruth Herndon Shields, Abstracts of Wills Recorded in Orange County, North Carolina, 1800–1850 (1958), page 28.
- 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).
