Orange County Indexed
Will of Samuel Pyle
Will Book D, page 73 · dated 30 August 1801 · proved August 1802
Samuel Pyle named his son, relatives and other beneficiaries and appointed John Newlin executor.
- Kind of paper
- Will
- Testator
- Samuel Pyle (printed SAMUEL PYLE)
- Dated
- 30 August 1801
- Proved
- August 1802 court
- In the court minutes
- Family named
- Joseph Pyle (son); Joseph Pyle (brother); Samuel Pyle (his son); John Hall (brother-in-law); Samuel Hall (his son)
- Also left something
- Deborah Newlin; Daniel ...?....
- Executor
- John Newlin
- Witness
- Dan’l Foust
Reading note: Daniel’s surname and other witnesses omitted or unreadable on source.
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 73.
- Abstract: Ruth Herndon Shields, Abstracts of Wills Recorded in Orange County, North Carolina, 1800–1850 (1958), page 11.
- 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).
