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Orange County Indexed

Will of Aaron Boles

Will Book D, page 494 · dated 22 March 1816 · proved November 1816

Aaron Boles named Henderson and Nancy Haney, brother John and unnamed sisters; friend Walter Murray was executor.

Kind of paper
Will
Testator
Aaron Boles (printed AARON BOLES)
Dated
22 March 1816
Proved
November 1816 court
In the court minutes
Family named
John Boles (brother)
Also left something
Henderson Haney (age now about two years old); Nancy Haney
Executor
Walter Murray (friend)
Witnesses
Walter Murray; William (x) Criswell; Robert Fulton
Money and goods
$1

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 494.
  • Abstract: Ruth Herndon Shields, Abstracts of Wills Recorded in Orange County, North Carolina, 1800–1850 (1958), page 74.
  • 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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