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Orange County Indexed

Will of Mary (x) Pratt

Will Book D, page 446 · dated 17 February 1815 · proved May 1815

Mary Pratt named son George and three daughters; no executor was named.

Kind of paper
Will
Testator
Mary (x) Pratt (printed MARY (x) PRATT)
Dated
17 February 1815
Proved
May 1815 court
A second reading
Mark Chilton’s index of the will books gives the probate as May 1814. Check the will book to settle it.
Family named
George Pratt (son); Margaret Paul (daughter); Alsa Flintum (daughter); Caty Taylor (daughter)
Witnesses
Jas. Kerr; Jno. Piper

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 446.
  • 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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