Orange County Indexed
Will of James Craig, Sr.
Will Book D, page 603 · dated 8 January 1817 · proved August 1821
James Craig named Rebecca and children, left David a plantation, and appointed Rebecca and John Blackwood executors.
- Kind of paper
- Will
- Testator
- James Craig, Sr. (printed JAMES CRAIG, SR.)
- Dated
- 8 January 1817
- Proved
- August 1821 court
- Family named
- Rebecca (wife); William (son); Isaac (son); David (son); Nancy Mellett (daughter); Margaret Nichols (daughter); Rebecca (daughter; unmarried)
- Executors
- Rebecca (wife); John Blackwood (friend)
- Witnesses
- John Blackwood; Samuel Strayhorn; Thomas Faucett
- Land
- plantation
- Money and goods
- 10 shillings each
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 603.
- 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).
