Orange County Indexed
Will of James Hancock
Will Book D, page 478 · dated 1816 · proved May 1816
James Hancock named Clarissa, children and deceased Stephen’s children and appointed Clarissa and Nathan executors.
- Kind of paper
- Will
- Testator
- James Hancock (printed JAMES HANCOCK)
- Dated
- 1816
- Proved
- May 1816 court
- In the court minutes
- Family named
- Clarissa (wife); William (son); James Hancock (son); Robert Hancock (son); Nathan Hancock (son); Roger Hancock (son); Stephen Hancock (deceased son; deceased); Stanley (two youngest children); John Hancock (two youngest children); Nathan (son); Betsey Franklin (daughter); Polly (daughter)
- Executors
- Clarissa (wife); Nathan (son)
- Witnesses
- Tyree Glenn; Martin (x) Crutcher
- Money and goods
- $1 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 478.
- Abstract: Ruth Herndon Shields, Abstracts of Wills Recorded in Orange County, North Carolina, 1800–1850 (1958), page 71.
- 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).
