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Orange County Indexed

Will of Stephen (x) Carroll

Will Book E, page 173 · dated 3 July 1827 · proved November 1828

Stephen Carroll named wife Elenor and son Benjamin and appointed Elenor and William Lewis executors.

Kind of paper
Will
Testator
Stephen (x) Carroll (printed STEPHEN (x) CARROLL)
Dated
3 July 1827
Proved
November 1828 court
Family named
Elenor (wife); Benjamin (son)
Executors
Elenor (wife); William Lewis
Witnesses
James Berry; James Dollar
In the paper’s words
“weak in body”

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 173.
  • Abstract: Ruth Herndon Shields, Abstracts of Wills Recorded in Orange County, North Carolina, 1800–1850 (1958), page 130.
  • 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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