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Orange County Indexed

Will of Isaac Harvey

Will Book D, page 62 · dated 4 July 1800 · proved May 1802

Isaac Harvey named his wife and beneficiaries, left shares to deceased children’s unnamed children, and appointed son Nathan sole executor.

Kind of paper
Will
Testator
Isaac Harvey (printed ISAAC HARVEY)
Dated
4 July 1800
Proved
May 1802 court
Family named
Martha Harvey (wife); William Harvey (my deceased son; deceased); Nathan Harvey (son); Nathan (son); Edith Madden (my deceased daughter; deceased)
Also left something
Isaac; Hannah; Rachel; Martha; Ruth
Executor
Nathan (son)
Witness
James Newlin
Money and goods
one English shilling each; Five shillings; Five shillings

Reading note: Other witness names omitted on source; no relationship stated for initial five names.

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 62.
  • Abstract: Ruth Herndon Shields, Abstracts of Wills Recorded in Orange County, North Carolina, 1800–1850 (1958), page 9.
  • Microfilm at the Orange County Public Library, Wall Local History Collection: reel 80002, “Record of Wills, 1794–1822, Vols. C, D” (State Archives film).
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