Orange County Indexed
Will of William (x) Prichard
Will Book E, page 313 · dated 23 October 1833 · proved February 1844
William Prichard named wife Milly, children, and land on Price’s Creek and appointed Wilson and Nelson Prichard executors.
- Kind of paper
- Will
- Testator
- William (x) Prichard (printed WILLIAM (x) PRICHARD)
- Dated
- 23 October 1833
- Proved
- February 1844 court
- A second reading
- Mark Chilton’s index of the will books gives the probate as February 1834. Check the will book to settle it.
- Family named
- Milly (wife); Nelson (son); Wilson (son); Edmond Prichard (son); Rodah Prichard (daughter); Nancy Prichard (daughter; under age)
- Executors
- Wilson Prichard (trusty friends); Nelson Prichard (trusty friends)
- Witness
- Goodman Nevill
- Land
- land on south side of Price's Creek
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 313.
- Abstract: Ruth Herndon Shields, Abstracts of Wills Recorded in Orange County, North Carolina, 1800–1850 (1958), page 154.
- 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).
