Orange County Indexed
Will of William Creswell
Will Book E, page 233 · dated 28 August 1830 · proved November 1830
William Creswell named wife Jane and nephews William Brown Creswell and Wesley Morrow and appointed George A. Mebane executor.
- Kind of paper
- Will
- Testator
- William Creswell (printed WILLIAM CRESWELL)
- Dated
- 28 August 1830
- Proved
- November 1830 court
- Family named
- Jane (wife; is pregnant ?); William Brown Creswell (nephew); Wesley Morrow (nephew)
- Executor
- George A. Mebane
- Witnesses
- B. Breeze; William Mebane
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 233.
- Abstract: Ruth Herndon Shields, Abstracts of Wills Recorded in Orange County, North Carolina, 1800–1850 (1958), page 140.
- 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).
