Orange County Indexed
Will of Joseph Hamilton
Will Book D, page 540 · dated 30 May 1818 · proved August 1818
Joseph Hamilton named Martha and three sons and appointed William Pickett and Archibald Hamilton executors.
- Kind of paper
- Will
- Testator
- Joseph Hamilton (printed JOSEPH HAMILTON)
- Dated
- 30 May 1818
- Proved
- August 1818 court
- In the court minutes
- Family named
- Martha (wife); James (son); John (son); William Hamilton (son)
- Executors
- William Pickett (friends); Archibald Hamilton (friends)
- Witnesses
- Robert Gragson; Samuel McCaddams
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 540.
- Abstract: Ruth Herndon Shields, Abstracts of Wills Recorded in Orange County, North Carolina, 1800–1850 (1958), page 83.
- 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).
