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Orange County Indexed

Will of Ephriam Carrington

Will Book E, page 17 · dated 8 December 1818 · proved May 1822

Ephriam Carrington named Priscilla and children and appointed friends Herbert Lines and John I. Carrington executors.

Kind of paper
Will
Testator
Ephriam Carrington (printed EPHRIAM CARRINGTON)
Dated
8 December 1818
Proved
May 1822 court
Family named
Priscilla (wife); Morgan (son); John (son); Linton (?) (son); Charlotte (daughter); Dicey (daughter); Polly (daughter)
Executors
Herbert Lines (friends); John I. Carrington (friends)
Witnesses
James S. Harris; Thomas Cottrell

Reading note: Linton (?) questioned on page.

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 17.
  • Abstract: Ruth Herndon Shields, Abstracts of Wills Recorded in Orange County, North Carolina, 1800–1850 (1958), page 100.
  • 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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