Orange County Indexed
Will of an unnamed testator
Will Book D, page 522 · dated 14 August 1817 · proved May 1818
An unnamed testator left the entire estate to cousin-in-law Peter Smith.
- Kind of paper
- Will
- Testator
- Not named in the abstract
- Dated
- 14 August 1817
- Proved
- May 1818 court
- A second reading
- Mark Chilton’s index of the will books gives the testator as Eve Smith. Check the will book to settle it.
- Family named
- Peter Smith (cousin-in-law)
- Witnesses
- Frederick (x) Kimbro; Richard Proctor; Isaac (x) Sharp
Reading note: Abstract prints no maker name; blank is intentional and validator exception is documented.
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 522.
- Abstract: Ruth Herndon Shields, Abstracts of Wills Recorded in Orange County, North Carolina, 1800–1850 (1958), page 80.
- 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).
