Orange County Indexed
Will of John (x) Creswell
Will Book D, page 306 · dated 19 July 1810 · proved August 1810
John Creswell named three sons and two daughters and appointed John Ray and Robert Faucett executors.
- Kind of paper
- Will
- Testator
- John (x) Creswell (printed JOHN (x) CRESWELL)
- Dated
- 19 July 1810
- Proved
- August 1810 court
- Family named
- John Creswell (son); William Creswell (son); Alexander Creswell (son); Margaret Morrow (daughter); Easter Creswell (daughter)
- Executors
- John Ray (trusty friends); Robert Faucett (trusty friends)
- Witnesses
- Thomas Vincent; Thomas Barnwell
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.
- 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).
