Orange County Indexed
Will of David Ray
Will Book E, page 297 · dated 20 March 1833 · proved May 1833
David Ray provided for his wife, stepmother Sally, deceased sister Susannah, and daughter Peggy Jane and appointed Richerson Nichols executor.
- Kind of paper
- Will
- Testator
- David Ray (printed DAVID RAY)
- Dated
- 20 March 1833
- Proved
- May 1833 court
- Family named
- Peggy Jane Ray (daughter); Susannah Ray (sister; deceased); Sally Ray (step-mother)
- Executor
- Richerson Nichols
- Witnesses
- John Hanks; John Smith; Charles Ray
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 297.
- Abstract: Ruth Herndon Shields, Abstracts of Wills Recorded in Orange County, North Carolina, 1800–1850 (1958), page 151.
- 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).
