Orange County Indexed
Will of John Faucett
Will Book D, page 179 · dated 13 October 1806 · proved November 1806
John Faucett named wife Mary and directed equal land shares for unnamed children reaching adulthood; friends John Ray and William Bradford were executors.
- Kind of paper
- Will
- Testator
- John Faucett (printed JOHN FAUCETT)
- Dated
- 13 October 1806
- Proved
- November 1806 court
- Family named
- Mary (wife)
- Executors
- John Ray (friends); William Bradford (friends)
- Witnesses
- Samuel Faucett; Thos. Bradford
- Land
- land to be divided equally to my children that shall live to come of age
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 179.
- Abstract: Ruth Herndon Shields, Abstracts of Wills Recorded in Orange County, North Carolina, 1800–1850 (1958), page 29.
- 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).
