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Orange County Indexed

Will of John Liner

Will Book D, page 203 · dated 14 September 1806 · proved November 1807

John Liner named six children and appointed his friends John Scot and Isaac Holt executors.

Kind of paper
Will
Testator
John Liner (printed JOHN LINER)
Dated
14 September 1806
Proved
November 1807 court
A second reading
Mark Chilton’s index of the will books gives the testator as John Linn. Check the will book to settle it.
Family named
Mary (my six children); James (my six children); Sarah (my six children); John (my six children); Nancy (my six children); Margaret (my six children)
Executors
John Scot (loving friends); Isaac Holt (loving friends)
Witnesses
A. (x) Thompson; John Cook

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 203.
  • Abstract: Ruth Herndon Shields, Abstracts of Wills Recorded in Orange County, North Carolina, 1800–1850 (1958), page 33.
  • 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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