Orange County Indexed
Will of Hannah (x) Ray
Will Book D, page 509 · dated 8 April 1817 · proved August 1817
Hannah Ray named sons and daughters, mentioned two unnamed grandsons, and directed distribution of a ninety-five-dollar note and other money.
- Kind of paper
- Will
- Testator
- Hannah (x) Ray (printed HANNAH (x) RAY)
- Dated
- 8 April 1817
- Proved
- August 1817 court
- Family named
- James Massey (my eldest son); Matthew Ray (my youngest son); Lydia West (eldest daughter); Ann Wolf (youngest daughter)
- Also left something
- James Lindley
- Executors
- Matthew Ray (son); John Stockard
- Witness
- John Stockard
- Money and goods
- $95
Reading note: Compiler calls will puzzling; unpunctuated James Massey James Lindley recorded as two names with uncertain relationship of latter.
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 509.
- Abstract: Ruth Herndon Shields, Abstracts of Wills Recorded in Orange County, North Carolina, 1800–1850 (1958), page 77.
- 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).
