Will of Jno. Armstrong

Jno. Armstrong named Anne, sons and married daughters and appointed Anne and John Hanks executors.

Kind of paper

Will

Testator

Jno. Armstrong (printed JNO. ARMSTRONG)

Dated

8 September 1806

Proved

August 1810 court

Family named

Anne Armstrong (wife); Anne (wife); Joseph (son); Thomas (son); James Armstrong (son); John Hanks (my son); Margaret (daughter); Jinnet (daughter); Mary (daughter); Elizabeth (daughter); Catrenah (daughter); James Willson (husband of daughter); John Hanks (husband of daughter); John Jesse (husband of daughter); Isaac Jackson (husband of daughter); Absolom Cooper (husband of daughter)

Executors

Anne (wife); John Hanks (my son)

Witnesses

And’w McBroom; John Ray

Money and goods

20 shillings each

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 267.
• Abstract: Ruth Herndon Shields, Abstracts of Wills Recorded in Orange County, North Carolina, 1800–1850 (1958), page 42.
• 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).