Orange County Indexed
Will of Duncan D. Briggs
Will Book D, page 457 · dated 30 July 1815 · proved November 1815
Duncan Briggs named siblings, nephew Duncan and Absolom Alston, who received his books and was executor.
- Kind of paper
- Will
- Testator
- Duncan D. Briggs (printed DUNCAN D. BRIGGS)
- Dated
- 30 July 1815
- Proved
- November 1815 court
- In the court minutes
- Family named
- Mary I or J Alston (half-sisters); Kitty Alston (half-sisters); Samuel Briggs (brother); John J or I Briggs (brother); Calvin J. Alston (half-brother); Duncan Briggs (son of Samuel Briggs)
- Also left something
- Absolom Alston
- Executor
- Absolom Alston
- Witnesses
- James Webb; A.M.Dickson
- Money and goods
- all my books
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 457.
- 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).
