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Orange County Indexed

Will of William Whitted, Sr.

Will Book E, page 2 · dated 7 January 1821 · proved February 1822

William Whitted named Mary and relatives and appointed James Webb and James Phillips executors.

Kind of paper
Will
Testator
William Whitted, Sr. (printed WILLIAM WHITTED, Sr.), of Hillsboro, N.C.
Dated
7 January 1821
Proved
February 1822 court
Family named
Mary (wife); William Henry Whitted (son); James Whitted (my son; deceased); Eliza I. (daughter); William Nash Whitted (children of my son James Whitted, deceased); Mary T. Whitted (children of my son James Whitted, deceased); Levi (brother); John (deceased brother; deceased); Anne (niece, daughter of Jehu); Anne Whitted (daughter of Jehu; deceased); Attelia Whitted (widow of James)
Executors
James Webb; James Phillips
Witnesses
Wm. Horton; John Scott
Also named
Jehu (father of Anne)

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 2.
  • Abstract: Ruth Herndon Shields, Abstracts of Wills Recorded in Orange County, North Carolina, 1800–1850 (1958), page 98.
  • 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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