Orange County Indexed
Will of Abram Craig
Will Book D, page 552 · dated 26 December 1818 · proved February 1819
Abram Craig named Jane and unnamed children, referring to two children’s legacy from Andrew Murdock’s estate; three friends were executors.
- Kind of paper
- Will
- Testator
- Abram Craig (printed ABRAM CRAIG)
- Dated
- 26 December 1818
- Proved
- February 1819 court
- Family named
- Jane (wife)
- Executors
- James Mebane (friends); George Johnston (friends); John Freeland (friends)
- Witnesses
- James Webb; James Craig
- Also named
- Andrew Murdock (estate; dec’d)
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 552.
- 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).
