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Orange County Indexed

Will of John Coble

Will Book D, page 447 · dated 28 June 1815 · proved August 1815

John Coble named Catherine and children, left Stinking Creek land to Henry and Daniel, and appointed Jonathan Hadley and Adam Ingold executors.

Kind of paper
Will
Testator
John Coble (printed JOHN COBLE)
Dated
28 June 1815
Proved
August 1815 court
In the court minutes
Family named
Catherine (wife); Peter (son); Samuel (son); Henry (son); Daniel (son); David (son; deceased ?); George (my four children that has had some property); Catherine (my four children that has had some property); Peggy (my four children that has had some property); Mary (my four children that has had some property); Henry (my three youngest children); David (my three youngest children); Milly (my three youngest children; youngest of all)
Executors
Jonathan Hadley; Adam Ingold
Witnesses
Richard Proctor; Daniel Shofner; Eli (x) Rose
Land
land on Stinking Creek

Reading note: David appears among youngest children and separately as son deceased ?; both occurrences retained.

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 447.
  • Abstract: Ruth Herndon Shields, Abstracts of Wills Recorded in Orange County, North Carolina, 1800–1850 (1958), page 66.
  • 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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