Orange County Indexed
Will of John Eccles
Will Book D, page 567 · dated 11 June 1818 · proved February 1820
John Eccles named Jennet, four daughters, son William and son-in-law Thomas Murray; Jennet was sole executrix.
- Kind of paper
- Will
- Testator
- John Eccles (printed JOHN ECCLES)
- Dated
- 11 June 1818
- Proved
- February 1820 court
- Family named
- Jennet (wife); William Eccles (son); Elizabeth Eccles (daughter); Mary Eccles (daughter; the last three under age ?); Sarah Eccles (daughter; the last three under age ?); Martha Eccles (daughter; the last three under age ?); Thomas Murray (son-in-law)
- Executor
- Jennet (wife)
- Witnesses
- Robert G. Mitchell; Junia Hall; James Barnard
- Money and goods
- $1
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 567.
- Abstract: Ruth Herndon Shields, Abstracts of Wills Recorded in Orange County, North Carolina, 1800–1850 (1958), page 88.
- 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).
