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Orange County Indexed

Will of Anna Armstrong

Will Book E, page 31 · dated 12 February 1819 · proved February 1823

Anna Armstrong gave ten shillings each to unnamed children and named son-in-law Isaac Jackson executor.

Kind of paper
Will
Testator
Anna Armstrong (printed ANNA ARMSTRONG)
Dated
12 February 1819
Proved
February 1823 court
Family named
Isaac Jackson (son-in-law)
Executor
Isaac Jackson (son-in-law)
Witnesses
Robert Whitted; Levi Whitted
Money and goods
10 shillings each

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 31.
  • Abstract: Ruth Herndon Shields, Abstracts of Wills Recorded in Orange County, North Carolina, 1800–1850 (1958), page 104.
  • 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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