Will of Andrew Hunter

Andrew Hunter named wife Susannah, sons and daughters, and limited additional bequests to his first wife’s children.

Kind of paper

Will

Testator

Andrew Hunter (printed ANDREW HUNTER)

Dated

16 February 1831

Proved

August 1831 court

Family named

Susannah (wife); Alexander Hunter (son); Thomas Hunter (son); Elizabeth Hunter (daughter); Jane Loyd (daughter); Frances Hunter (daughter); Frances Hunter (daughter); Eliza Hunter (daughter); Christa Hunter (daughter); Harriet Hunter (daughter); Nancy Loyd (daughter); Sary Cate (daughter)

Executors

Thos Hogan; John Careathers

Witnesses

Hasten Poe; Reuben C. Poe

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 253.
• Abstract: Ruth Herndon Shields, Abstracts of Wills Recorded in Orange County, North Carolina, 1800–1850 (1958), page 144.
• 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).