Orange County Indexed
Will of John Holmes
Will Book E, page 307 · dated 21 June 1833 · proved November 1833
John Holmes named wife Catherine and nine children and appointed son William Holmes executor.
- Kind of paper
- Will
- Testator
- John Holmes (printed JOHN HOLMES)
- Dated
- 21 June 1833
- Proved
- November 1833 court
- Family named
- Catherine (wife); Nicholas (son); William (son; unmarried); William Holmes (son); Ann (daughter; unmarried); Jane (daughter; unmarried); Mary (All my children); Hannah (All my children); Sarah (All my children); Henry (All my children); Joseph (All my children)
- Executor
- William Holmes (son)
- Witnesses
- William Paine; John Stockard; John (x) Paine
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 307.
- Abstract: Ruth Herndon Shields, Abstracts of Wills Recorded in Orange County, North Carolina, 1800–1850 (1958), page 153.
- 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).
