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Orange County Indexed

Will of Robert H. Faucett

Will Book E, page 332 · dated 8 December 1834 · proved February 1835

Robert H. Faucett named mother Phebe Dickey, left land to siblings, and appointed Absolem Harvey and Junia Hall executors.

Kind of paper
Will
Testator
Robert H. Faucett (printed ROBERT H. FAUCETT)
Dated
8 December 1834
Proved
February 1835 court
Family named
Phebe Dickey (my mother); Aby Dickey (my two sisters); Elizabeth Dickey (my two sisters); Isaac Newton Dickey (brother)
Executors
Absolem Harvey (Uncle); Junia Hall
Witnesses
James Pickett; James Hart
Land
all my land

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 332.
  • Abstract: Ruth Herndon Shields, Abstracts of Wills Recorded in Orange County, North Carolina, 1800–1850 (1958), page 158.
  • 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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