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Orange County Indexed

Will of Jonathan (x) Dollar

Will Book E, page 330 · dated 6 December 1834 · proved February 1835

Jonathan Dollar named three daughters, Mary Rhodes, and son Jonathan Dollar, whom he appointed executor.

Kind of paper
Will
Testator
Jonathan (x) Dollar (printed JONATHAN (x) DOLLAR)
Dated
6 December 1834
Proved
February 1835 court
Family named
Jonathan Dollar (son); Milly (daughter); Sally (daughter); Cynthia (daughter)
Also left something
Mary Rhodes (relationship not stated)
Executor
Jonathan Dollar (son)
Witnesses
W. S ? Pratt; T(homas) Bilbo; William Lynn
In the paper’s words
“far advanced in years”

Reading note: Shields questions witness W. S ? Pratt.

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 330.
  • Abstract: Ruth Herndon Shields, Abstracts of Wills Recorded in Orange County, North Carolina, 1800–1850 (1958), page 157.
  • 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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