Orange County Indexed
Will of Lemuel Alston
Will Book D, page 542 · dated 18 June 1818 · proved August 1818
Lemuel Alston named siblings and nephew Lemuel and appointed Solomon Jones and George L. Alston executors.
- Kind of paper
- Will
- Testator
- Lemuel Alston (printed LEMUEL ALSTON)
- Dated
- 18 June 1818
- Proved
- August 1818 court
- In the court minutes
- Family named
- Christian Jones (sister); Patsy (sister); Mary Scott (sister); Sally Pickett (sister); Absalom Alston (brother); Philip Alston (brother); Alfred Alston (brother); George L. Alston (brother); James Alston (father of nephew); Solomon Jones (worthy friends and brothers); Lemuel Alston (nephew, son of James Alston); Solomon Jones (husband of sister); Robert Scott (husband of sister); Mathew Pickett (husband of sister)
- Executors
- Solomon Jones (worthy friends and brothers); George L. Alston (worthy friends and brothers)
- Witnesses
- W. E. Roberts; Freeman Broadwell
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 542.
- 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).
