Orange County Indexed
Will of William Evans
Will Book D, page 33 · dated 20 February 1801 · proved May 1801
William Evans named his wife, five children and Samuel Davis, divided land and furniture, and appointed two executors.
- Kind of paper
- Will
- Testator
- William Evans (printed WILLIAM EVANS)
- Dated
- 20 February 1801
- Proved
- May 1801 court
- Family named
- Margaret Evans (wife); Samuel (my two sons); William Evans (my two sons); Samuel Evans (my son); Catey (daughter); Betsey (daughter); Susanna Evans (daughter)
- Also left something
- Samuel Davis
- Executors
- Samuel Evans (my son); Margaret Evans
- Witnesses
- Almon Mullan; Nathaniel Carrington
- Land
- all my land
- Money and goods
- All my furniture
Reading note: Surname printed once after grouped given names; retained as printed.
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 33.
- Abstract: Ruth Herndon Shields, Abstracts of Wills Recorded in Orange County, North Carolina, 1800–1850 (1958), page 3.
- 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).
