Orange County Indexed
Will of John Johns
Will Book D, page 42 · dated 25 March 1801 · proved May 1801
John Johns named his wife, children, son-in-law and Kitty Johns and appointed two friends executors.
- Kind of paper
- Will
- Testator
- John Johns (printed JOHN JOHNS)
- Dated
- 25 March 1801
- Proved
- May 1801 court
- Family named
- Elizabeth Johns (wife); Henry Johns (son); Thomas Johns (son); Susannah (daughter); Elizabeth Johns (daughter); Patsey Johns (daughter); Thomas William Grice (son-in-law)
- Also left something
- Kitty ? Johns
- Executors
- John McCollock (Trusty friend; Sr); James Allison (Trusty friend)
- Witnesses
- Wm. Keeling; Wm. (x) Whitfield; George (x) Welsh
Reading note: Source questions Kitty ? Johns; no relationship given.
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 42.
- Abstract: Ruth Herndon Shields, Abstracts of Wills Recorded in Orange County, North Carolina, 1800–1850 (1958), page 4.
- 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).
