Orange County Indexed
Will of John (x) Cook
Will Book D, page 278 · dated 9 March 1798 · proved February 1811
John Cook named Sarah and three sons, left plantations, and appointed David Cook and Hardy Hurdle executors.
- Kind of paper
- Will
- Testator
- John (x) Cook (printed JOHN (x) COOK)
- Dated
- 9 March 1798
- Proved
- February 1811 court
- In the court minutes
- Family named
- Sarah Cook (wife); Archibald Cook (son); David Cook (son); Robert Cook (son)
- Executors
- David Cook (son); Hardy Hurdle (friend)
- Witnesses
- Hardy Hurdle; H’m (?) Corgin
- Land
- plantation whereon he now lives
Reading note: Witness H’m (?) Corgin questioned on page.
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 278.
- Abstract: Ruth Herndon Shields, Abstracts of Wills Recorded in Orange County, North Carolina, 1800–1850 (1958), page 43.
- 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).
