Orange County Indexed
Will of Peter (x) Foust
Will Book D, page 239 · dated 28 September 1808 · proved November 1808
Peter Foust provided for his pregnant wife, sons, daughters and brother; his wife and son John were executors.
- Kind of paper
- Will
- Testator
- Peter (x) Foust (printed PETER (x) FOUST)
- Dated
- 28 September 1808
- Proved
- November 1808 court
- In the court minutes
- Family named
- Mary (wife; is pregnant); John Foust (son); Peter Foust (son; under age); John (son); Elizabeth Clap (daughter); Sarah Amick (daughter); Daniel (brother)
- Executor
- John (son)
- Witnesses
- Thomas Lindley; Jacob Marshall
- Land
- plantation I bought of Joseph Stout
- Also named
- Joseph Stout (former land owner)
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 239.
- Abstract: Ruth Herndon Shields, Abstracts of Wills Recorded in Orange County, North Carolina, 1800–1850 (1958), page 38.
- 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).
