Orange County Indexed
Will of Peter (x) Smith
Will Book D, page 364 · dated 23 October 1812
Peter Smith left his estate to Hannah for life, then four sisters; John Hilton and John Cook were executors.
- Kind of paper
- Will
- Testator
- Peter (x) Smith (printed PETER (x) SMITH)
- Dated
- 23 October 1812
- Proved
- Date not given
- Family named
- Hannah Smith (mother); Nancy (my four sisters); Susanna (my four sisters); Barbary (my four sisters); Polly Smith (my four sisters)
- Executors
- John Hilton (trusty friends); John Cook (trusty friends)
- Witness
- Henry Cook,Jr.
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 364.
- Abstract: Ruth Herndon Shields, Abstracts of Wills Recorded in Orange County, North Carolina, 1800–1850 (1958), page 53.
- 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).
