Orange County Indexed
Will of Robert Turner
Will Book D, page 6 · proved May 1800
Robert Turner named his wife and four children and appointed his wife and John Agnew executors.
- Kind of paper
- Will
- Testator
- Robert Turner (printed ROBERT TURNER)
- Dated
- As printed: “Dated 6 March”
- Proved
- May 1800 court
- A second reading
- Mark Chilton’s index of the will books gives the date as 6 March 1800. Check the will book to settle it.
- In the court minutes
- Family named
- Mary Turner (wife); James Turner (son); Eliza Agnew (daughter); Jane (daughter); Sarah (daughter)
- Executors
- Mary Turner (wife); John Agnew
- Witnesses
- Hardy Hurdle; Thomas Rippy; Joseph Rippy
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 6.
- Abstract: Ruth Herndon Shields, Abstracts of Wills Recorded 1752 through 1800 in Orange County, North Carolina, Will Books A, B and C (Davie Poplar Chapter NSDAR, revised edition 1966).
- 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).
