Orange County Indexed
Will of David Hall
Will Book D, page 233 · dated 18 January 1808 · proved May 1808
David Hall left lands to Elizabeth and then Hardy Almond, and provided money and personal property to his children.
- Kind of paper
- Will
- Testator
- David Hall (printed DAVID HALL)
- Dated
- 18 January 1808
- Proved
- May 1808 court
- Family named
- Elizabeth (wife); Hardy Almond (son); Thomas (son); Delila (daughter); Sally (daughter); Rebecca (daughter); Betsey (daughter); Estey (Elsey ?) (daughter)
- Executors
- Abner Massey; Elizabeth (wife)
- Witnesses
- Leonard Carlton; Wm. Shepard; J. Dixon
- Land
- all lands
- Money and goods
- 5 shillings
Reading note: Probate is May or August 1808; daughter Estey (Elsey ?) questioned; unpunctuated daughter names split individually.
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 233.
- Abstract: Ruth Herndon Shields, Abstracts of Wills Recorded in Orange County, North Carolina, 1800–1850 (1958), page 37.
- 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).
