Orange County Indexed
Will of Nathan Alan
Will Book D, page 584 · dated 24 February 1820 · proved November 1820
Nathan Alan named Martha and three minor children and recognized her inherited land; Ephriam Doan was executor.
- Kind of paper
- Will
- Testator
- Nathan Alan (printed NATHAN ALAN)
- Dated
- 24 February 1820
- Proved
- November 1820 court
- Family named
- Martha (wife); Ruth (child; all under age); Job (child; all under age); Miles (child; all under age)
- Executor
- Ephriam Doan (trusty friend)
- Witnesses
- Soloman Alan; William Alan
- Land
- her own land, which joins Robert Rains and Jacob Cox, inherited from her father
- Also named
- Robert Rains (adjoining owner); Jacob Cox (adjoining owner)
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 584.
- Abstract: Ruth Herndon Shields, Abstracts of Wills Recorded in Orange County, North Carolina, 1800–1850 (1958), page 91.
- 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).
