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Orange County Indexed

Will of Katy (x) Brewer

Will Book D, page 30 · dated 10 July 1800 · proved February 1801

Katy Brewer named four children and appointed two friends executors.

Kind of paper
Will
Testator
Katy (x) Brewer (printed KATY (x) BREWER)
Dated
10 July 1800
Proved
February 1801 court
Family named
Candice (my four children); Charlotte (my four children); William (my four children); Polly (my four children)
Executors
Samuel Carothers (Trusty friends); Wm. Forsythe (Trusty friends)
Witnesses
Wm. Strowd; James (x) Lloyd; Eliza. (x) Lloyd

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).
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