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Orange County Indexed

Will of Paul (x) Morgan

Will Book D, page 411 · dated 14 July 1814 · proved November 1814

Paul Morgan left his estate to Isaac Jackson Senior and appointed him executor.

Kind of paper
Will
Testator
Paul (x) Morgan (printed PAUL (x) MORGAN)
Dated
14 July 1814
Proved
November 1814 court
Also left something
Isaac Jackson Senior
Executor
Isaac Jackson Senior
Witnesses
Benoni Jackson; Hezekia s (x) Revel

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 411.
  • Abstract: Ruth Herndon Shields, Abstracts of Wills Recorded in Orange County, North Carolina, 1800–1850 (1958), page 60.
  • 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).
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