Orange County Indexed
Will of Richard (x) Gott
Will Book D, page 601 · dated 30 May 1821 · proved August 1821
Richard Gott left two-thirds of his estate to Catherine and one-third to Sarah Squires; no executor was named.
- Kind of paper
- Will
- Testator
- Richard (x) Gott (printed RICHARD (x) GOTT)
- Dated
- 30 May 1821
- Proved
- August 1821 court
- Family named
- Catherine Gott (wife)
- Also left something
- Sarah Squires (daughter of Thomas Squires)
- Witnesses
- Jno. Umstead; Thomas Gill; Thomas Squires
- Also named
- Thomas Squires (father of legatee)
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 601.
- Abstract: Ruth Herndon Shields, Abstracts of Wills Recorded in Orange County, North Carolina, 1800–1850 (1958), page 95.
- 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).
