Orange County Indexed
Will of John Douglass
Will Book D, page 481 · dated 19 February 1816 · proved May 1816
John Douglass left his estate to Margaret and cash to brothers and James’s heirs; James Graham and George Garrison were executors.
- Kind of paper
- Will
- Testator
- John Douglass (printed JOHN DOUGLASS)
- Dated
- 19 February 1816
- Proved
- May 1816 court
- In the court minutes
- Family named
- Margaret (wife); William (brother); David (brother); Henderson Douglass (brother); James Douglass (brother)
- Executors
- James Graham (friends); George Garrison (friends; son of Jacob Garrison)
- Witnesses
- David Bradford Jr; Thomas (x) Bradford; George Graham
- Land
- Land bounded by William Cammon, James Graham, David Bradford and Jacob Garrison
- Money and goods
- $2 each
- Also named
- William Cammon (adjoining owner); James Graham (adjoining owner); David Bradford (adjoining owner); Jacob Garrison (adjoining owner)
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 481.
- 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).
