Orange County Indexed
Will of Robert Faucett
Will Book E, pages 137–138 · dated 3 August 1822 · proved February 1827
Robert Faucett left Luce, an enslaved person, conditionally to Martha Strudwick or Mrs. Grove and provided for sons and Wm. Tudor.
- Kind of paper
- Will
- Testator
- Robert Faucett (printed ROBERT FAUCETT)
- Dated
- 3 August 1822
- Proved
- February 1827 court
- Family named
- Robert Faucett (son); James Faucett (son); William Faucett (son)
- Also left something
- Wm. Tudor (whom I have raised)
- To
- Martha Strudwick (Mrs.); Grove (widow of late Wm. B. Grove; Mrs.)
- Executors
- John Hanks (Rev.); James Faucett (cousin); John Faucett (son of Henry)
- Witnesses
- Thomas Ruffin; Patrick H. Winston
- Enslaved people named
- Luce (to Mrs. Martha Strudwick|Mrs. Grove)
- In the records of enslaved people
- Luce (this paper)
- Places
- Fayetteville; North Carolina
- Also named
- Wm. B. Grove (late, of Fayetteville); Henry
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, pages 137–138.
- Abstract: Ruth Herndon Shields, Abstracts of Wills Recorded in Orange County, North Carolina, 1800–1850 (1958), page 124.
- 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).
