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Orange County Indexed

Will of Jeremiah (x) Glenn

Will Book D, page 475 · dated 28 January 1814 · proved August 1814

Jeremiah Glenn named Patsey and children and made legacies to daughters’ heirs; William Glen and James Latta were executors.

Kind of paper
Will
Testator
Jeremiah (x) Glenn (printed JEREMIAH (x) GLENN)
Dated
28 January 1814
Proved
August 1814 court
In the court minutes
Family named
Patsey Glen (wife); James (son); Thomas Anderson Glen (son); George Washington Glenn (son); Nancy Woods (my daughter); Feriby Watson (my daughter); Permelia Glenn (my daughter); Polly Etheridge (my daughter); Kitty Horton Glenn (daughters ?); Lucy Glen (daughters ?); William Glen (brother)
Executors
William Glen (brother); James Latta (Esq.)
Witnesses
Jno. Marshall; Demsey Wood
Money and goods
£3; £5

Reading note: Kitty Horton Glenn and Lucy Glen are labeled daus ?; spelling Glen distinct from Glenn preserved.

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 475.
  • Abstract: Ruth Herndon Shields, Abstracts of Wills Recorded in Orange County, North Carolina, 1800–1850 (1958), page 70.
  • 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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