Orange County Indexed
Will of Lewis (x) Brewer
Will Book D, page 47A · dated 20 April 1801 · proved August 1801
Lewis Brewer left one third to his wife and two thirds to his daughter at lawful age and appointed two executors.
- Kind of paper
- Will
- Testator
- Lewis (x) Brewer (printed LEWIS (x) BREWER)
- Dated
- 20 April 1801
- Proved
- August 1801 court
- Family named
- Patience (wife); Nancy (daughter)
- Executors
- Nathan Dicks; Eli Harvey
- Witnesses
- John Stout; Adam Rinehart
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 47A.
- Abstract: Ruth Herndon Shields, Abstracts of Wills Recorded in Orange County, North Carolina, 1800–1850 (1958), page 5.
- 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).
