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Orange County Indexed

Codicil of John (x) Creswell

Will Book D, page 306 · dated 30 July 1830

John Creswell added a bequest of a loom and other property to daughter Easter.

Kind of paper
Codicil
Testator
John (x) Creswell (printed JOHN (x) CRESWELL)
Dated
30 July 1830
Family named
Easter (daughter)
Witnesses
John (x) Noble; John Creswell
Money and goods
loom

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 306.
  • Abstract: Ruth Herndon Shields, Abstracts of Wills Recorded in Orange County, North Carolina, 1800–1850 (1958), page 46.
  • 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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