Orange County Indexed
Will of Mary Craig
Will Book E, page 103 · dated 29 October 1825 · proved February 1826
Mary Craig requested burial at New Hope Meeting House and named three grandchildren; Wm. Kirkland and Charles D. Johnston were executors.
- Kind of paper
- Will
- Testator
- Mary Craig (printed MARY CRAIG)
- Dated
- 29 October 1825
- Proved
- February 1826 court
- Family named
- Samuel (my deceased son; deceased); William (children of my deceased son Samuel); Peggy (children of my deceased son Samuel); Polly (children of my deceased son Samuel)
- Executors
- Wm. Kirkland; Charles D. Johnston
- Witnesses
- George J. Johnston; Joseph Kirkland
- Places
- New Hope (Presbyterian) Meeting House
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 E, page 103.
- Abstract: Ruth Herndon Shields, Abstracts of Wills Recorded in Orange County, North Carolina, 1800–1850 (1958), page 118.
- 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 80003, “Record of Wills, 1822–1851, Vols. E, F” (State Archives film).
