Orange County Indexed
Will of Nathan Hancock
Will Book D, page 480 · dated 11 April 1816 · proved May 1816
Nathan Hancock named siblings and left one hundred dollars to niece Henrietta; James Kimbrough was executor.
- Kind of paper
- Will
- Testator
- Nathan Hancock (printed NATHAN HANCOCK)
- Dated
- 11 April 1816
- Proved
- May 1816 court
- In the court minutes
- Family named
- Robert Hancock (brother); Roger Hancock (brother); Polly Hancock (my sister); Henrietta (my sister Polly’s little daughter)
- Executor
- James Kimbrough
- Witnesses
- Thomas Cottrell; Ira E. Arnold
- Money and goods
- $100
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 480.
- 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).
