Orange County Indexed
Will of John Pickard
Will Book D, page 351 · dated 15 February 1812
John Pickard named his wife Peggy, eleven sons and four daughters, his son Alex as guardian of Sally, and son Alex'r and grandson John H. Pickard as executors.
- Kind of paper
- Will
- Testator
- John Pickard (printed JOHN PICKARD)
- Dated
- 15 February 1812
- Proved
- Date not given
- In the court minutes
- Family named
- Peggy (wife); Daniel (my three youngest sons); Jesse (my three youngest sons); Thomas (my three youngest sons); Henry (my sons); James (my sons); John (my sons); Alex'r (my sons); Isaac (my sons); Richard (my sons); Elisha (my sons); Michael (my sons); Alex'r Pickard (son); Sally (daughter; unmarried); Rebecca Steel (my daughters); Fanny Crutchfield (my daughters); Catherine Efland (my daughters); John H. Pickard (grandson)
- Executors
- Alex'r Pickard (son); John H. Pickard (grandson)
- Guardian
- Alex (her brother)
- Witnesses
- Thomas Lasley; John Grimes
- In the paper’s words
- “My three youngest sons, viz, Daniel, Jesse and Thomas.”
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 351.
- Abstract: Ruth Herndon Shields, Abstracts of Wills Recorded in Orange County, North Carolina, 1800–1850 (1958), page 52.
- 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).
