Orange County Indexed
Will of John Alston Sr.
Will Book D, page 440 · dated 12 September 1814 · proved August 1815
John Alston named sons, daughters and grandson Calvin; Absolom Alston and William Cain were executors.
- Kind of paper
- Will
- Testator
- John Alston Sr. (printed JOHN ALSTON SR.)
- Dated
- 12 September 1814
- Proved
- August 1815 court
- In the court minutes
- Family named
- John (son); George (son); James (son); Phillip (son); Lemuel (son); Alfred (son); Absolom (son); Absolom Alston (son); Polly (daughter); Patsy (daughter); Sally Pickett (daughter); Calvin Alston (grandson, son of Absolom)
- Executors
- Absolom Alston (son); William Cain Jun’r
- Witnesses
- William Cain Sen’r; William Smith
- Money and goods
- 5 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 440.
- 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).
