Orange County Indexed
Will of Margaret Carson
Will Book D, page 61 · dated 11 October 1796 · proved February 1802
Margaret Carson named her sons, daughters and granddaughter and appointed her son-in-law executor.
- Kind of paper
- Will
- Testator
- Margaret Carson (printed MARGARET CARSON)
- Dated
- 11 October 1796
- Proved
- February 1802 court
- Family named
- Alex’r Carson (husband; deceased); Robert Carson (son); Samuel (son); Alice (my three daughters); Mary (my three daughters); Elizabeth (my three daughters); Margaret Clenny (granddaughter); William Clenny (son-in-law)
- Executor
- William Clenny (son-in-law)
- Witnesses
- J. G. Rencher; Anne Rencher
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 61.
- Abstract: Ruth Herndon Shields, Abstracts of Wills Recorded in Orange County, North Carolina, 1800–1850 (1958), page 8.
- 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).
