Orange County Indexed
Will of Sarah Harden
Will Book D, pages 418–420 · dated 20 September 1814 · proved November 1814
Sarah Harden named son John and four daughters, assigned tracts to Mary and Peggy, and appointed three friends executors.
- Kind of paper
- Will
- Testator
- Sarah Harden (printed SARAH HARDEN)
- Dated
- 20 September 1814
- Proved
- November 1814 court
- Family named
- John Harden (son); Mary Prather (daughter); Sarah (my three youngest daughters); Betsey (my three youngest daughters); Peggy (my three youngest daughters)
- Executors
- Archibald D. Murphey (my good worthy friends); John L. Prather (my good worthy friends); John Harden (my good worthy friends)
- Witnesses
- Thos. Scott; Rebekah Harden
- Land
- tract of 150 acres called Powell’s Place; tract whereon I now live; the Rainey tract
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, pages 418–420.
- 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).
