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Orange County Indexed

Will of James (x) Crabtree

Will Book E, page 282 · dated July 1832 · proved November 1832

James Crabtree left small sums to sons and daughter Charlotte, land to daughters, and appointed son Clement executor.

Kind of paper
Will
Testator
James (x) Crabtree (printed JAMES (x) CRABTREE)
Dated
July 1832
Proved
November 1832 court
Family named
Richard (son); John (son); Abram Crabtree (son); Clement Crabtree (son); Charlotte (daughter wife of James Jackson); Fanny (daughter wife of James Crabtree); Sally (daughter); Elizabeth (daughter); Polly Crabtree (daughter); James Jackson; James Crabtree
Executor
Clement Crabtree (son)
Witnesses
Allen Cain; James Myrick
Land
land
Money and goods
$1 each; $1

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 282.
  • Abstract: Ruth Herndon Shields, Abstracts of Wills Recorded in Orange County, North Carolina, 1800–1850 (1958), page 149.
  • 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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