Orange County Indexed
Will of Elizabeth Stroud
Will Book D, page 9 · dated 25 September 1800 · proved November 1800
Elizabeth Stroud left property to her children and Fanny Howell’s unnamed children and appointed two executors.
- Kind of paper
- Will
- Testator
- Elizabeth Stroud (printed ELIZABETH STROUD)
- Dated
- 25 September 1800
- Proved
- November 1800 court
- In the court minutes
- Family named
- Margaret Douglass (child); John Stroud (child); Fanny Howell (child); Mary Thrift (child); Sally King (child); Anderson Stroud (child); William Stroud (child); Elizabeth Ranc (child); Marshall Stroud (child); Dixon Stroud (child)
- Executors
- John Stroud; Anderson Stroud
- Witnesses
- John King; Nancy Hogan; Elizabeth King
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 9.
- Abstract: Ruth Herndon Shields, Abstracts of Wills Recorded 1752 through 1800 in Orange County, North Carolina, Will Books A, B and C (Davie Poplar Chapter NSDAR, revised edition 1966).
- 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).
