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Orange County Indexed

Will of Daniel (x) Foust

Will Book E, page 124 · dated 16 August 1826 · proved November 1826

Daniel Foust left plantations to Robert Graham and nephew Daniel Foust and named his wife Sarah.

Kind of paper
Will
Testator
Daniel (x) Foust (printed DANIEL (x) FOUST)
Dated
16 August 1826
Proved
November 1826 court
Family named
Sarah (wife); Peter; Daniel Foust (nephew, son of Peter)
Also left something
Robert Graham (friend)
Executor
Robert Grahams
Witnesses
John Newlin; Solomon Allen; William Allen
Land
plantation known as Lindley place, 226 acres; plantation known as Marshill place; new entry
Places
Lindley place; Marshill place

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 124.
  • Abstract: Ruth Herndon Shields, Abstracts of Wills Recorded in Orange County, North Carolina, 1800–1850 (1958), page 122.
  • 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).
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