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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).
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