Orange County Indexed
Will of John Gant
Will Book D, page 30 · dated 25 December 1800 · proved May 1801
John Gant named his wife and nine children, devised Haw River land, and appointed his wife and son executors.
- Kind of paper
- Will
- Testator
- John Gant (printed JOHN GANT)
- Dated
- 25 December 1800
- Proved
- May 1801 court
- Family named
- Ann (Wife); William Gant (son); John Gant (son); James Gant (son); Isam Gant (son); Zacharia (son); Isom Gant (son); Keziah Rippey (daughter); Sarah Gant (daughter); Mary Riggins (daughter); Hannah Boish ? (daughter)
- Executors
- Ann (wife); Isom Gant (son)
- Witnesses
- W. Mebane; W.B.? Mebane
- Land
- all the land on the S. Side of Haw River
- Places
- Haw River
Reading note: Source questions Hannah Boish ? and witness W.B.? Mebane; son Isam and executor Isom retained.
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 30.
- Abstract: Ruth Herndon Shields, Abstracts of Wills Recorded in Orange County, North Carolina, 1800–1850 (1958), page 2.
- 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).
