Orange County Indexed
Will of Edward Pickett
Will Book D, page 560 · dated 30 March 1819 · proved May 1819
Edward Pickett named four sons and four daughters and appointed sons John and James executors.
- Kind of paper
- Will
- Testator
- Edward Pickett (printed EDWARD PICKETT)
- Dated
- 30 March 1819
- Proved
- May 1819 court
- Family named
- John Pickett (son); William Pickett (son); James Pickett (son); Walter Pickett (son); John (son); James (son); Mary Murry (daughter); Margaret Roney (daughter); Sarah McDaniel (daughter); Martha Murray (daughter)
- Executors
- John (son); James (son)
- Witnesses
- James Mebane; J. A. Mebane
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 560.
- Abstract: Ruth Herndon Shields, Abstracts of Wills Recorded in Orange County, North Carolina, 1800–1850 (1958), page 87.
- 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).