Orange County Indexed
Will of Darkis (x) Hays
Will Book D, page 261 · dated 12 March 1808 · proved February 1810
Darkis Hays named friends as beneficiaries and appointed Ruthy Stark executrix.
- Kind of paper
- Will
- Testator
- Darkis (x) Hays (printed DARKIS (x) HAYS)
- Dated
- 12 March 1808
- Proved
- February 1810 court
- In the court minutes
- Also left something
- Milly Beasley (friends); Nancy Martin (friends); Rachel Blanchard (friends); Ruthy Stark (friends); the widow Stark (friends); Phebe Stark (friends); Elizabeth Stark (friends); Christin Hurdle (friends)
- Executor
- Ruthy Stark
- Witnesses
- Hardy Hurdle; James Hurdle
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 261.
- Abstract: Ruth Herndon Shields, Abstracts of Wills Recorded in Orange County, North Carolina, 1800–1850 (1958), page 41.
- 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).
