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Orange County Indexed

Mortgage: George (x) Picket to Samuel Wilson

Will Book D, page 546 · dated 23 February 1819 · proved February 1819

George Picket mortgaged a horse to Samuel Wilson.

Kind of paper
Mortgage
Made by
George (x) Picket (printed GEORGE (x) PICKET)
Dated
23 February 1819
Proved
February 1819 court
To
SAMUEL WILSON
Witness
Joseph A. Woods
Money and goods
a horse

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 546.
  • Abstract: Ruth Herndon Shields, Abstracts of Wills Recorded in Orange County, North Carolina, 1800–1850 (1958), page 84.
  • Microfilm at the Orange County Public Library, Wall Local History Collection: reel 80002, “Record of Wills, 1794–1822, Vols. C, D” (State Archives film).
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