Orange County Indexed
Will of William Morrow
Will Book D, page 189 · dated 3 February 1807 · proved February 1807
William Morrow left plantations to sons and named daughters and a minor granddaughter; sons and John Thompson were executors.
- Kind of paper
- Will
- Testator
- William Morrow (printed WILLIAM MORROW), of the Hawfields
- Dated
- 3 February 1807
- Proved
- February 1807 court
- Family named
- William Morrow (son); James Morrow (son); John Morrow (my son); Elizabeth Andrews ? (daughter); Margat Bryen ? (daughter); Jane Pickhard (daughter); Janey Banks (Parker ?) Morrow (doter of my son John Morrow; under age)
- Executors
- William Morrow (son); James Morrow (son); Jno. Thompson
- Witnesses
- Robert Grahams; William (x) Grahams; Jno. Thompson
- Land
- plantation whereon I now live; plantation where he now lives
- Also named
- Sarah Morrow (her mother)
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 189.
- Abstract: Ruth Herndon Shields, Abstracts of Wills Recorded in Orange County, North Carolina, 1800–1850 (1958), page 31.
- 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).
