Orange County Indexed
Will of Peter (x) Helton
Will Book D, page 93 · dated 12 December 1802 · proved February 1803
Peter Helton named his wife, three sons and eight unnamed daughters, devised land, and appointed two executors.
- Kind of paper
- Will
- Testator
- Peter (x) Helton (printed PETER (x) HELTON)
- Dated
- 12 December 1802
- Proved
- February 1803 court
- Family named
- Susannah (wife); Abraham Helton (son); Peter Helton (son); James Helton (son)
- Executors
- Samuel Fogleman; John Cobble (son of Adam)
- Witnesses
- Abraham (x) Helton; John Cobble; Samuel Macq....?.; Adam Starr
- Land
- 100 acres he now lives on; 100 acres he formerly lived on; 170 acres including the old plantation
- Also named
- Adam (father of executor John Cobble)
Reading note: Witness Samuel Macq....?. surname incomplete 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 93.
- Abstract: Ruth Herndon Shields, Abstracts of Wills Recorded in Orange County, North Carolina, 1800–1850 (1958), page 15.
- 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).
