Orange County Indexed
Will of Sherid Dunnagan
Will Book D, page 22 · dated 7 January 1800 · proved August 1800
Sherid Dunnagan left his estate to his wife to support their children and appointed his unnamed wife and her brother executors.
- Kind of paper
- Will
- Testator
- Sherid Dunnagan (printed SHERID DUNNAGAN)
- Dated
- 7 January 1800
- Proved
- August 1800 court
- Family named
- Dice (Wife); William (son); Sherid (son); Amelia (two daughters); Mary (two daughters)
- Executor
- George Carington (her brother)
- Witnesses
- George Newton; Edward Worsham
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 22.
- Abstract: Ruth Herndon Shields, Abstracts of Wills Recorded in Orange County, North Carolina, 1800–1850 (1958).
- 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).
