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Orange County Indexed

Will of James Fulton

Will Book D, page 430 · dated 27 February 1806 · proved May 1815

James Fulton left the estate to son James and cash to five daughters; James was executor.

Kind of paper
Will
Testator
James Fulton (printed JAMES FULTON), planter
Dated
27 February 1806
Proved
May 1815 court
Family named
James (son); Mary Rhodes (daughter); Esther Warren (daughter); Jane (daughter); Margaret Garrard (daughter); Sarah Edwards (daughter); Thomas Rhodes (husband of daughter); James Warren (husband of daughter); William Warren (husband of daughter); James Garrard (husband of daughter); Thomas Edwards (husband of daughter)
Executor
James (son)
Witnesses
Thomas Latta, Jun’r; J. Watson
Money and goods
10 shillings

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 430.
  • Abstract: Ruth Herndon Shields, Abstracts of Wills Recorded in Orange County, North Carolina, 1800–1850 (1958), page 63.
  • 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).
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