Orange County Indexed
Will of John (x) Carrigan
Will Book E, page 240 · dated 8 March 1831 · proved February 1831
John Carrigan provided for his wife, unmarried daughter Tempe, underage son Hugh, and other children; Samuel Child was executor.
- Kind of paper
- Will
- 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
- Hugh (son by my present wife; under age); Tempe (daughter; unmarried)
- Executor
- Samuel Child (trusty friend)
- Witnesses
- Alves Cheek; James Cheek
- In the paper’s words
- “sick and weak”
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 141.
- 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).
