Orange County Indexed
Will of Roger Hancock
Will Book D, page 531 · dated 10 February 1817 · proved May 1818
Roger Hancock named Nancy, three daughters and two sons, left Bibles to Wesley and Fletcher, and appointed Nancy sole executrix.
- Kind of paper
- Will
- Testator
- Roger Hancock (printed ROGER HANCOCK)
- Dated
- 10 February 1817
- Proved
- May 1818 court
- Family named
- Nancy (wife); Nancy Hancock (wife); Wesley Hancock (son); Fletcher Hancock (son); Susannah Hancock (daughter); Polly W. Hancock (daughter); Betsy Hancock (daughter)
- Executor
- Nancy Hancock (wife)
- Witnesses
- Reubin Cardin; Jesse Branch
- Money and goods
- my big Bible; my small Bible
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 531.
- Abstract: Ruth Herndon Shields, Abstracts of Wills Recorded in Orange County, North Carolina, 1800–1850 (1958), page 81.
- 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).
