Orange County Indexed
Will of Baxter King
Will Book D, page 34 · dated 23 February 1801 · proved May 1801
Baxter King named his wife and seven children, ordered Mosby land rented, and appointed his wife and son executors.
- Kind of paper
- Will
- Testator
- Baxter King (printed BAXTER KING)
- Dated
- 23 February 1801
- Proved
- May 1801 court
- Family named
- Elenner King (wife); Elinor (wife); John (son); Nathaniel (son); John King (son); Mary (daughter); Hannah King (daughter); Nancy King (daughter); Dolley King (daughter); Elizabeth King (daughter)
- Executors
- Elinor (wife); John King (son)
- Witnesses
- John Adams; William Hogan; Charles King
- Land
- Mosby tract of land
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 34.
- 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).
