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Orange County Indexed

Will of John Duglass

Will Book D, page 224 · dated 20 November 1807 · proved February 1808

John Duglass named Mary, five children, Peggy Walls and her son; Mary and John were executors.

Kind of paper
Will
Testator
John Duglass (printed JOHN DUGLASS)
Dated
20 November 1807
Proved
February 1808 court
In the court minutes
Family named
Mary (wife); John (son); John Duglass (my five children); George Duglass (my five children); Adam Duglass (my five children); Rosanna Duglass (my five children); Hannah Duglass (my five children)
Also left something
Peggy Walls; William Walls
Executors
Mary (wife); John (son)
Witnesses
James Cain; Thomas Holden; Henry Bunch

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 224.
  • 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).
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