Orange County Indexed
Will of Samuel Ector
Will Book D, page 314 · dated 1811 · proved May 1811
Samuel Ector provided for his wife and seven children and left land to Hugh; his wife and Joseph were executors.
- Kind of paper
- Will
- Testator
- Samuel Ector (printed SAMUEL ECTOR)
- Dated
- 1811
- Proved
- May 1811 court
- In the court minutes
- Family named
- Joseph (son); James (son); William (son); Hugh (son); Thomas (son); Margaret (daughter); Keziah (daughter)
- Executor
- Joseph (son)
- Witnesses
- David Bradford,Sr.; John Hughes
- Land
- land where John Dunnivan now lives
- Also named
- John Dunnivan (land occupant)
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 314.
- Abstract: Ruth Herndon Shields, Abstracts of Wills Recorded in Orange County, North Carolina, 1800–1850 (1958), page 47.
- 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).
