Orange County Indexed
Will of Stephen Garrott
Will Book E, page 243 · dated 28 March 1831 · proved February 1831
Stephen Garrott left wife Betsey his property for life, then to unnamed children, and appointed her executrix.
- Kind of paper
- Will
- Testator
- Stephen Garrott (printed STEPHEN GARROTT)
- Dated
- 28 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
- Betsey (wife)
- Executor
- Betsey (wife)
- Witnesses
- F. Moize; Lewis Hutchins
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 243.
- Abstract: Ruth Herndon Shields, Abstracts of Wills Recorded in Orange County, North Carolina, 1800–1850 (1958), page 142.
- 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).
