Orange County Indexed
Will of Richard Faucett
Will Book E, page 163 · dated 10 April 1828 · proved August 1828
Richard Faucett named wife Rebecca, three daughters, and an underage son; wife Susannah and Samuel Strayhorn were named executors.
- Kind of paper
- Will
- Testator
- Richard Faucett (printed RICHARD FAUCETT)
- Dated
- 10 April 1828
- Proved
- August 1828 court
- Family named
- Rebecca (wife); Susannah (wife); Thomas Samuel Faucett (son; under age); Nancy (my two single daughters); Elizabeth (my two single daughters); Susannah Durham (daughter)
- Executors
- Susannah (wife); Samuel Strayhorn
- Witnesses
- Samuel Faucett; Thos. Latta; Jinney Faucett
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 163.
- Abstract: Ruth Herndon Shields, Abstracts of Wills Recorded in Orange County, North Carolina, 1800–1850 (1958), page 129.
- 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).
