Orange County Indexed
Will of James Murray
Will Book D, page 175 · dated 29 August 1805 · proved August 1806
James Murray named wife Sarah, sons Jonathan and James, and daughters Ann, Elizabeth, and Ruth; daughter Elizabeth was executrix.
- Kind of paper
- Will
- Testator
- James Murray (printed JAMES MURRAY)
- Dated
- 29 August 1805
- Proved
- August 1806 court
- Family named
- Sarah (wife); Jonathan (son); James (son); Ann (daughter); Elizabeth (daughter); Ruth (daughter)
- Executor
- Elizabeth (daughter)
- Witnesses
- Wm. Rainey; Jonathan (x) Murray
- Money and goods
- Jonathan, Ann, James 1 shilling each
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 175.
- 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).
