Orange County Indexed
Will of George Laws
Will Book D, page 454 · dated 24 June 1815 · proved November 1815
George Laws provided for Sarah and deceased sons’ heirs and appointed sons and friends executors.
- Kind of paper
- Will
- Testator
- George Laws (printed GEORGE LAWS)
- Dated
- 24 June 1815
- Proved
- November 1815 court
- In the court minutes
- Family named
- Sarah Laws (wife); William Laws (deceased son; deceased); George Laws (deceased son; deceased); Thomas Laws (deceased son; deceased); Ezekiel (son); Leonard Laws (son)
- Executors
- Ezekiel (son); Leonard Laws (son); Thomas Latta; James Walker; Sterling Harris
- Witnesses
- William Dollar; Thomas Latta
- Money and goods
- 10 shillings each
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 454.
- Abstract: Ruth Herndon Shields, Abstracts of Wills Recorded in Orange County, North Carolina, 1800–1850 (1958), page 67.
- 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).
