Orange County Indexed
Will of John Walker
Will Book D, page 336 · dated 17 March 1810 · proved May 1812
John Walker divided Tennessee and plantation lands among sons and named daughters and grandchildren; Peter and William Walker were executors.
- Kind of paper
- Will
- Testator
- John Walker (printed JOHN WALKER)
- Dated
- 17 March 1810
- Proved
- May 1812 court
- Family named
- Peter Walker (son); Andrew (son); William (son); Peter (son); William Walker (son); Mary Picket (daughter); Matty McCauley (daughter); John (grandson, sons of William); James Walker (grandson, sons of William); Peter (grandson, sons of Andrew Walker); John (grandson, sons of Andrew Walker)
- Also left something
- Walter Picket
- Executors
- Peter (son); William Walker (son)
- Witnesses
- James Mebane; John Wilson; James Murray
- Land
- 100 acres on Duck River in Tennessee; remainder of my land on Duck River in Tennessee; plantation on which he lives
- Places
- Duck River; Tennessee
Reading note: John and James Walker share surname printed once; relationship to Walter Picket not stated.
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 336.
- Abstract: Ruth Herndon Shields, Abstracts of Wills Recorded in Orange County, North Carolina, 1800–1850 (1958), page 50.
- 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).
