Orange County Indexed
Will of John Young
Will Book E, page 23 · dated 23 October 1822 · proved November 1822
John Young left a purchased plantation to Nancy, mentioned unnamed children, and appointed Levi Whitted and Thomas Watts executors.
- Kind of paper
- Will
- Testator
- John Young (printed JOHN YOUNG), of the Town of Hillsboro
- Dated
- 23 October 1822
- Proved
- November 1822 court
- Family named
- Nancy (wife)
- Executors
- Levi Whitted (friends); Thomas D. Watts (friends)
- Witnesses
- James Webb; James L. Smith
- Land
- my plantation bought of James Hastings
- Also named
- James Hastings (land seller)
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 23.
- Abstract: Ruth Herndon Shields, Abstracts of Wills Recorded in Orange County, North Carolina, 1800–1850 (1958), page 102.
- 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).
