Orange County Indexed
Will of Frances Child
Will Book E, page 271 · dated 7 January 1823 · proved August 1832
Frances Child left lot 117 to son Samuel Child, named two grandsons, and appointed James Webb and F. Nash executors.
- Kind of paper
- Will
- Testator
- Frances Child (printed FRANCES CHILD), of the Town of Hillsborough
- Dated
- 7 January 1823
- Proved
- August 1832 court
- Family named
- Samuel Child (son); Samuel Child (grandson); William McKerall (grandson)
- Executors
- James Webb (worthy friends); F. Nash (worthy friends)
- Witnesses
- Thomas Clancy; James Child
- Land
- lot where I now live, lot # 117
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 271.
- Abstract: Ruth Herndon Shields, Abstracts of Wills Recorded in Orange County, North Carolina, 1800–1850 (1958), page 147.
- 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).
