Orange County Indexed
Will of Stewart Dixon
Will Book E, pages 335–338 · dated 18 August 1834 · proved February 1835
Stewart Dixon distributed named tracts among his wife and sons, named six daughters, and appointed son Thomas Dixon executor.
- Kind of paper
- Will
- Testator
- Stewart Dixon (printed STEWART DIXON)
- Dated
- 18 August 1834
- Proved
- February 1835 court
- Family named
- Sally (wife); James Dixon (eldest son); Joseph Dixon (son); Thomas Dixon (son); John Dixon (son); William Dixon (son); Mary Wilkins (daughter wife of William Wilkins); Martha Morrow (daughter); Hannah Dixon (daughter); Margaret Dixon (daughter); Nancy Dixon (daughter); Sally Dixon (daughter); William Wilkins
- Executor
- Thomas Dixon (son)
- Witnesses
- John Trolinger; Alex Mebane; Elijah Pickard
- Land
- home plantation and part of Hulgan Tract; Turentine Tract; Kirk Tract of land which runs to Haw River joins Hufman; Patton Tract; McCracking Tract; balance of Hulgan Tract; Freeman Tract
- Places
- Haw River
- Also named
- Hufman
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, pages 335–338.
- 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).
