Orange County Indexed
Will of Lewis Kirk
Will Book D, page 289 · dated 24 February 1807 · proved November 1808
Lewis Kirk named Sarah, son John and four eldest children, appointing Richard Stanford and Thomas Snipes executors.
- Kind of paper
- Will
- Testator
- Lewis Kirk (printed LEWIS KIRK)
- Dated
- 24 February 1807
- Proved
- November 1808 court
- In the court minutes
- Family named
- Sarah (wife); John Kirk (son); William (my four eldest children); James (my four eldest children); Rebecca (my four eldest children); Josiah (my four eldest children)
- Executors
- Richard Stanford (friends); Thomas Snipes (friends)
- Witnesses
- Jon. Umstead; H. Forest; David Roach
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 289.
- Abstract: Ruth Herndon Shields, Abstracts of Wills Recorded in Orange County, North Carolina, 1800–1850 (1958), page 44.
- 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).
