Orange County Indexed
Will of John Craig
Will Book D, page 496 · dated 5 August 1816 · proved February 1817
John Craig requested burial near Mary and named descendants; nephew Isaac Craig and son-in-law Alex’r Russell were executors.
- Kind of paper
- Will
- Testator
- John Craig (printed JOHN CRAIG)
- Dated
- 5 August 1816
- Proved
- February 1817 court
- In the court minutes
- Family named
- Mary (wife; deceased); Samuel (son; unmarried); Abraham (son); James (son); Alexander (son); David (father of granddaughters); Peggy (daughter; unmarried); Polly (daughter); John Long (grandson); Elizabeth Craig (granddaughter of David); Nancy Murdock (my three granddaughters by David); Polly (my three granddaughters by David); Sally Craig (my three granddaughters by David); Isaac Craig (nephew); Alex’r Russell (son-in-law)
- Also left something
- Elizabeth Russell
- Executors
- Isaac Craig (nephew); Alex’r Russell (son-in-law)
- Witnesses
- Alex’r Russell; Isaac Craig
- Money and goods
- $6; 5 shillings 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 496.
- 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).
