Orange County Indexed
Will of John Johnston
Will Book D, page 549 · dated 21 March 1813 · proved November 1818
John Johnston named Isabel, two minor sons and unnamed daughters; Isabel and John Craig were executors.
- Kind of paper
- Will
- Testator
- John Johnston (printed JOHN JOHNSTON)
- Dated
- 21 March 1813
- Proved
- November 1818 court
- Family named
- Isabel (wife); David (son; eldest; under age); John (son; second; under age)
- Executors
- Isabel (wife); John Craig
- Witnesses
- John Blackwoof; Margaret Johnston
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 549.
- Abstract: Ruth Herndon Shields, Abstracts of Wills Recorded in Orange County, North Carolina, 1800–1850 (1958), page 84.
- 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).
