Orange County Indexed
Will of John Saunders
Will Book D, page 412 · dated 21 October 1814 · proved November 1814
John Saunders left his estate to Lydia, with any remainder to Patsy Proctor and Nancy Saunders; William Henry Merritt was trustee and executor.
- Kind of paper
- Will
- Testator
- John Saunders (printed JOHN SAUNDERS)
- Dated
- 21 October 1814
- Proved
- November 1814 court
- Family named
- Lydia Saunders (mother)
- Also left something
- Patsy Proctor; Nancy Saunders
- Executor
- William Henry Merritt
- Trustee
- William Henry Merritt
- Witnesses
- Wm. Merritt; Thomas Merritt
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 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).
