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Orange County Indexed

Codicil of John (x) Carrigan

Will Book E, page 240 · dated 8 March 1831 · proved February 1831

John Carrigan permitted son-in-law James Roach to build a house and later occupy ten acres during his wife and Tempe’s lives.

Kind of paper
Codicil
Testator
John (x) Carrigan (printed JOHN (x) CARRIGAN)
Dated
8 March 1831
Proved
February 1831 court
A second reading
As the abstract prints them, the will was proved before it was dated, so one of the dates is wrong. Check the will book to settle it.
Family named
Tempe (daughter); James Roach (son-in-law)
Land
10 acres around house
Also named
Thomas Dodson

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 240.
  • Abstract: Ruth Herndon Shields, Abstracts of Wills Recorded in Orange County, North Carolina, 1800–1850 (1958), page 142.
  • 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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