Will of Hiram (x) Love

Hiram Love left hogs to Hugh Finley and named siblings, in-laws and a niece; no executor was named.

Kind of paper

Will

Testator

Hiram (x) Love (printed HIRAM (x) LOVE)

Dated

9 February 1816

Proved

February 1816 court

In the court minutes

• Will proved, February 1816 term
• Administration of an estate, February 1816 term

Family named

Margaret Harvey (sister); William Love (brother); Robert Love (brother); John Love (brother); James Love (brother); Dilly Ann Love (brother Robert Love’s child); James Finley (brother-in-law); Mary Love (sister-in-law)

Also left something

Hugh Finley; Mary Megomery ?

Witnesses

D.H.Harvey; William (x) Redum

Money and goods

all my hogs

Reading note: Mary Megomery ? questioned on page.

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 458.
• Abstract: Ruth Herndon Shields, Abstracts of Wills Recorded in Orange County, North Carolina, 1800–1850 (1958), page 68.
• 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).