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Orange County Indexed

Will of Peter (x) Tickle

Will Book E, page 33 · dated 25 July 1822 · proved May 1823

Peter Tickle named six children and son-in-law Daniel Whait and appointed Joseph Gibson executor.

Kind of paper
Will
Testator
Peter (x) Tickle (printed PETER (x) TICKLE)
Dated
25 July 1822
Proved
May 1823 court
Family named
Mary Whait (child); John Tickle (child); Peter Tickle (child); Elizabeth Huffhines (child); Conrad Tickle (child); Henry Tickle (child); Daniel Whait (son-in-law)
Executor
Joseph Gibson
Witness
Anthony Coble

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 33.
  • 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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