Orange County Indexed
Will of David Denning or Dinning
Will Book D, page 222 · dated 23 November 1802 · proved February 1808
David Denning or Dinning left his estate and creek land to Margery Barber and named other descendants.
- Kind of paper
- Will
- Testator
- David Denning or Dinning (printed DAVID DENNING or DINNING)
- Dated
- 23 November 1802
- Proved
- February 1808 court
- A second reading
- Mark Chilton’s index of the will books gives the testator as David Denning. Check the will book to settle it.
- Family named
- David Denning (son); Margery Barber (daughter); Isabella Moore (daughter); David Barber (grandchild); Betty Barber (grandchild)
- Executor
- Margery Barber
- Witnesses
- John; James Boyles (Boylen ?); James Davis
- Land
- land on Laughlen’s Creek
- Places
- Laughlen’s Creek
Reading note: Maker has alternate surname; John & James Boyles (Boylen ?) recorded with surname only where 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 222.
- Abstract: Ruth Herndon Shields, Abstracts of Wills Recorded in Orange County, North Carolina, 1800–1850 (1958), page 36.
- 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).
