Orange County Indexed
Will of Joseph Loftin
Will Book D, page 205 · dated 27 March 1806 · proved May 1806
Joseph Loftin provided for his wife and children, allocated purchased lands, and directed a Craven County tract sold.
- Kind of paper
- Will
- Testator
- Joseph Loftin (printed JOSEPH LOFTIN), of Chapel Hill, N.C.
- Dated
- 27 March 1806
- Proved
- May 1806 court
- Family named
- Elizabeth (Wife); Leonard (two sons); William (two sons); Leanord Loftin (son); Catherine (daughter); Vineter ? (daughter); Betsey (daughter)
- Executors
- Leanord Loftin (son); Daniel West (friend)
- Witnesses
- Wm. Groom; Geo. Lane (Love ?); Thomas Collier ?
- Land
- lands I bought of John Morgan; lands I bought of Bonds where Underhill lives; Lands I bought of Thos Heath
- Places
- Chapel Hill, N.C.; Craven County
- Also named
- John Morgan; Bonds; Underhill; Thos Heath
Reading note: Vineter ?, Geo. Lane (Love ?), and Thomas Collier ? have uncertain readings printed.
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 205.
- 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).
