Orange County Indexed
Will of Lewis Herndon
Will Book D, page 518 · dated 18 July 1817 · proved February 1818
Lewis Herndon provided for Polly to keep and educate their children and divided Wake County lands among four sons.
- Kind of paper
- Will
- Testator
- Lewis Herndon (printed LEWIS HERNDON)
- Dated
- 18 July 1817
- Proved
- February 1818 court
- In the court minutes
- Family named
- Polly (wife); Joseph (son; oldest); George (son); Lewis (son); Willis (son); Polly (daughter)
- Executors
- Joseph Boothe Jr. (friends); Sampson Moore (friends); Polly (wife)
- Witnesses
- Mark Beasley; Polly (x) Beasley; David (x) Castleberry
- Land
- lands in Wake County, N.C.
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 518.
- Abstract: Ruth Herndon Shields, Abstracts of Wills Recorded in Orange County, North Carolina, 1800–1850 (1958), page 79.
- 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).
