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Orange County Indexed

Will of an unnamed testator

Will Book D, page 412

The continued will named additional legatees and a debt owed by Hetty Williams; J. Jackson was executor.

Kind of paper
Will
Testator
Not named in the abstract
Also left something
Elizabeth Randles; Mary Thompson; Elizabeth McCain; Isaac Jackson; James Jackson
Executor
J. Jackson
Witnesses
Benoni Jackson; Mary (x) Jackson
Money and goods
3 dollard
Also named
Hetty Williams (debtor)

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 412.
  • Abstract: Ruth Herndon Shields, Abstracts of Wills Recorded in Orange County, North Carolina, 1800–1850 (1958), page 61.
  • 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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