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Orange County Indexed

Will of William (x) Montgomery

Will Book D, page 434 · dated 8 March 1815 · proved May 1815

William Montgomery named Eady, seven children and two grandsons and appointed John Latta and William Baldwin executors.

Kind of paper
Will
Testator
William (x) Montgomery (printed WILLIAM (x) MONTGOMERY)
Dated
8 March 1815
Proved
May 1815 court
Family named
Eady (wife); Hugh (son); John (son); Jonathan (son); James (son); David (son); Alexander (son); Nancy (daughter); James (son Hugh’s two sons); Alexander (son Hugh’s two sons)
Executors
John Latta Jun’r; William Baldwin
Witnesses
Hugh Montgomery; William (x) Woods

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 434.
  • Abstract: Ruth Herndon Shields, Abstracts of Wills Recorded in Orange County, North Carolina, 1800–1850 (1958), page 64.
  • 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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