Orange County Indexed
Will of Samuel Freeland
Will Book D, page 82 · dated 18 July 1802 · proved November 1802
Samuel Freeland left his estate to his wife for life, then equally to his unnamed children; no executor was named.
- Kind of paper
- Will
- Testator
- Samuel Freeland (printed SAMUEL FREELAND)
- Dated
- 18 July 1802
- Proved
- November 1802 court
- Family named
- Seely (wife)
- Witnesses
- Benjamin Shoarman; Joseph Rumbley; John (x) Whitten ?
Reading note: Source questions John (x) Whitten ?.
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 82.
- Abstract: Ruth Herndon Shields, Abstracts of Wills Recorded in Orange County, North Carolina, 1800–1850 (1958), page 12.
- 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).
