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Orange County Indexed

Will of Isaac (x) Jones

Will Book E, page 261 · dated 17 October 1831 · proved November 1831

Isaac Jones named wife Catherine, two sons, and two underage daughters and appointed brother Samuel Jones executor.

Kind of paper
Will
Testator
Isaac (x) Jones (printed ISAAC (x) JONES)
Dated
17 October 1831
Proved
November 1831 court
Family named
Catherine (wife); Samuel Stockard Jones (son); John Orange Jones (son); Elizabeth Jones (daughter; both under age); Frances Jones (daughter; both under age); Samuel Jones (brother)
Executor
Samuel Jones (brother)
Witnesses
Jeremiah Holt; V. M. Murphey

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 261.
  • Abstract: Ruth Herndon Shields, Abstracts of Wills Recorded in Orange County, North Carolina, 1800–1850 (1958), page 145.
  • 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).
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