Orange County Indexed
Will of Pomphrett Herndon
Will Book D, page 515 · dated 13 November 1817 · proved November 1817
Pomphrett Herndon divided the estate between James Herndon and Sally Herndon and gave small sums to other relatives.
- Kind of paper
- Will
- Testator
- Pomphrett Herndon (printed POMPHRETT HERNDON)
- Dated
- 13 November 1817
- Proved
- November 1817 court
- In the court minutes
- Family named
- James Herndon (father); James Herndon Jr (brother); Polly Gorman (sister); Nancy Barbee (sister); Elizabeth Dickson (sister); Sally Herndon (sister); Teresa N. Herndon (his half-sister); James Herndon, Jr. (brother); Macharine C. Herndon (brother-in-law (half-brother))
- Executor
- James Herndon, Jr. (brother)
- Witnesses
- Ja mes Lynn; Charles H. Collier
- Money and goods
- $5 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 515.
- Abstract: Ruth Herndon Shields, Abstracts of Wills Recorded in Orange County, North Carolina, 1800–1850 (1958), page 78.
- 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).
