Orange County Indexed
Will of Henry (x) Horton
Will Book D, page 213 · dated 5 March 1805 · proved November 1807
Henry Horton left all lands to Henry McFarlan, named other descendants, and appointed grandson John McFarlain sole executor.
- Kind of paper
- Will
- Testator
- Henry (x) Horton (printed HENRY (x) HORTON)
- Dated
- 5 March 1805
- Proved
- November 1807 court
- Family named
- Hugh Horton (son); Elizabeth McFarlaine (daughter); Sarah (parent of my grandchildren); Henry McFarlan (grandson); Mary Copley (granddaughter); Winnfred McMullen (my grandchildren of Sarah); Susana Adams (my grandchildren of Sarah); Mary Copley (my grandchildren of Sarah); James McFarlain (my grandchildren of Sarah); William McFarlain (my grandchildren of Sarah); John McFarlain (grandson)
- Executor
- John McFarlain (grandson)
- Witnesses
- Jas. Walker; Moses Jones; Larcan (x) McFarlain
- Land
- all lands
- Also named
- Thomas McFarlaine
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 213.
- Abstract: Ruth Herndon Shields, Abstracts of Wills Recorded in Orange County, North Carolina, 1800–1850 (1958), page 34.
- 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).
