Orange County Indexed
Will of George Ray
Will Book D, page 414 · dated 6 September 1814 · proved November 1814
George Ray provided for his wife and children and made conditional provision for another son; John Ray and Rankin McKee were executors.
- Kind of paper
- Will
- Testator
- George Ray (printed GEORGE RAY)
- Dated
- 6 September 1814
- Proved
- November 1814 court
- Family named
- Michael Ray (son); Jenny (daughter); Polly (daughter); Sally (daughter); Delilah (daughter); Matheran (Martha Ann ?) (daughter)
- Executors
- John Ray (friend); Rankin McKee (friend)
- Witnesses
- James Miller; R.R.Reade; Martin Murphey
Reading note: Wife possibly pregnant; Matheran (Martha Ann ?) questioned as printed.
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 414.
- Abstract: Ruth Herndon Shields, Abstracts of Wills Recorded in Orange County, North Carolina, 1800–1850 (1958), page 61.
- 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).
