Orange County Indexed
Will of Isham Gant
Will Book D, page 183 · dated 15 November 1806 · proved November 1806
Isham Gant named wife Sally and unnamed minor children; brothers William Gant and James Gant were executors.
- Kind of paper
- Will
- Testator
- Isham Gant (printed ISHAM GANT)
- Dated
- 15 November 1806
- Proved
- November 1806 court
- A second reading
- Mark Chilton’s index of the will books gives the probate as February 1807. Check the will book to settle it.
- Family named
- Sally (wife); William Gant (brother); James Gant (brother)
- Executors
- William Gant (brother); James Gant (brother)
- Witnesses
- J. Webb; A. Murray
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 183.
- Abstract: Ruth Herndon Shields, Abstracts of Wills Recorded in Orange County, North Carolina, 1800–1850 (1958), page 30.
- 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).
