Orange County Indexed
Will of George Laws
Will Book D, page 20 · dated 12 January 1789 · proved August 1800
George Laws named children, grandchildren and son-in-law and appointed two sons executors.
- Kind of paper
- Will
- Testator
- George Laws (printed GEORGE LAWS)
- Dated
- 12 January 1789
- Proved
- August 1800 court
- A second reading
- Mark Chilton’s index of the will books gives the date as 12 January 1798. Check the will book to settle it.
- Family named
- William (son); George (son); George Laws (son); William Laws (son); Elizabeth (daughter); Sarah Harris (daughter); George Laws (grandson, son of William Laws); Nancy Laws (granddaughter, daughter of Wm. Laws); Mary Laws (granddaughter, daughter of George Laws); Betty Edge (granddaughter); Jeremiah Edge (son-in-law)
- Executors
- George Laws (son); William Laws (son)
- Witnesses
- Joseph Guess; Wm. Madison; Richard Bohannon
- Also named
- William Laws (father of grandchild); Wm. Laws (father of grandchild); George Laws (father of grandchild)
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 20.
- Abstract: Ruth Herndon Shields, Abstracts of Wills Recorded 1752 through 1800 in Orange County, North Carolina, Will Books A, B and C (Davie Poplar Chapter NSDAR, revised edition 1966).
- 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).
