Orange County Indexed
Will of John Allen
Will Book D, pages 359–362 · dated 29 January 1812
John Allen named his wife Jennett, three sons, five daughters and a grandson; his son Samuel and Alexander Russell were executors.
- Kind of paper
- Will
- Testator
- John Allen (printed JOHN ALLEN)
- Dated
- 29 January 1812
- Proved
- Date not given
- Family named
- Jennett (wife); Abraham (son); George (son); Samuel (son); Peggy (daughter; unmarried); Sally (daughter; unmarried); Jane ("Jenny") (daughter; unmarried); Elizabeth (daughter); Nancy (daughter); John Allen (grandson)
- Executors
- Samuel (son); Alexander Russell
- Witnesses
- Ezekiel B. Currie; Alexander Russell; John C. Russell
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, pages 359–362.
- 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).
