Will of John Holder

John Holder named his wife, sons and seven other beneficiaries and appointed his wife and two sons executors.

Kind of paper

Will

Testator

John Holder (printed JOHN HOLDER)

Dated

17 March 1801

Proved

November 1801 court

Family named

Mary Holder (wife); Aron Holder (youngest son); William (my two sons); John Holder (my two sons)

Also left something

Abram Holder; Rhoda Vallentine; Anny Morgan; Elijah Holder; Daniel Holder; David Holder; John Holder (Jr.)

Executors

Mary Holder (my loving); William (my two sons); John Holder (my two sons)

Witnesses

John Scoggins; Wm. Holder; Aron Holder

Money and goods

10 shillings each

Reading note: Compiler questions whether seven beneficiaries were children; executor surname printed once after John.

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 55.
• Abstract: Ruth Herndon Shields, Abstracts of Wills Recorded in Orange County, North Carolina, 1800–1850 (1958), page 7.
• 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).