Orange County Indexed
Will of John Latta
Will Book D, page 525 · dated 8 February 1817 · proved May 1818
John Latta provided for his wife and children, ordered schooling, and left John a plantation; John Latta and John Cabe were executors.
- Kind of paper
- Will
- Testator
- John Latta (printed JOHN LATTA)
- Dated
- 8 February 1817
- Proved
- May 1818 court
- In the court minutes
- Family named
- John (son); Moriah (daughter)
- Executors
- John Latta, Sr.; John Cabe (Esq.)
- Witness
- Hugh Montgomery
- Land
- Little River plantation
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 525.
- 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).
