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Orange County Indexed

Will of Nathan (x) Rogers

Will Book D, page 445 · dated 4 July 1815 · proved August 1815

Nathan Rogers left Boyd’s Creek land to Nancy and named children; Nancy and Lodwick Fear were executors.

Kind of paper
Will
Testator
Nathan (x) Rogers (printed NATHAN (x) ROGERS)
Dated
4 July 1815
Proved
August 1815 court
Family named
Nancy (wife); Idelet (son); Celia Ann (daughter)
Executors
Nancy (wife); Lodwick Fear (respected friend)
Witnesses
Thos. Scott; Alex Allen
Land
land on Boyd’s Creek

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 445.
  • Abstract: Ruth Herndon Shields, Abstracts of Wills Recorded in Orange County, North Carolina, 1800–1850 (1958), page 65.
  • 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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