Orange County Indexed
Will of Alexander Russell
Will Book D, page 550 · dated 5 September 1818 · proved November 1818
Alexander Russell named Elizabeth, sons, daughter Jane and nephew Joseph, allocating lands; John, Wright Russell and Mathew Ray were executors.
- Kind of paper
- Will
- Testator
- Alexander Russell (printed ALEXANDER RUSSELL)
- Dated
- 5 September 1818
- Proved
- November 1818 court
- Family named
- Elizabeth (wife); John Craig Russell (son); David (son); Robert Paistly Russell (son; under age); Wright (son); Alexander (son); John (son); Wright Russell (son); Jane Rodgers (daughter); Joseph (nephew; surname not stated)
- Executors
- John (son); Wright Russell (son); Mathew Ray
- Witnesses
- James Webb; James Turner
- Land
- land he now lives on; land I hold in Guilford bought of Jessup
- Also named
- Jessup (land seller)
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 550.
- Abstract: Ruth Herndon Shields, Abstracts of Wills Recorded in Orange County, North Carolina, 1800–1850 (1958), page 85.
- 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).
