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Orange County Indexed

Will of George Allen

Will Book D, page 176 · dated 2 March 1803 · proved August 1806

George Allen named sons-in-law and sons, leaving Samuel Allen a plantation; son-in-law David White and Robert Hodge were executors.

Kind of paper
Will
Testator
George Allen (printed GEORGE ALLEN)
Dated
2 March 1803
Proved
August 1806 court
Family named
Samuel Allen (son); William Allen (son); George Allen (son); Alexander Allen (son); James Mebane (son-in-law); David Mebane (son-in-law); David White (son-in-law); James Armstrong (son-in-law)
Executors
David White (son-in-law); Robert Hodge
Witnesses
James Patton; Alexander Patton
Land
plantation joining lands of Robert Hodge and Robert Patton
Also named
Robert Hodge (lands joining); Robert Patton (lands joining)

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 176.
  • 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).
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