Orange County Indexed
Will of Samuel Peelor
Will Book E, page 35 · dated 25 July 1822 · proved May 1823
Samuel Peelor named Elizabeth, children and adult sons, left land to Benjamin at majority, and appointed Moses Guess and Moses McCown executors.
- Kind of paper
- Will
- Testator
- Samuel Peelor (printed SAMUEL PEELOR)
- Dated
- 25 July 1822
- Proved
- May 1823 court
- Family named
- Elizabeth (wife); Benjamin (son; when he comes of age); Cader Peelor (grown sons; grown); Michael Sherman Peelor (grown sons; grown); Pleasant Peelor (grown sons; grown); Anthony Redwine Peelor (grown sons; grown); Thornberry Peelor (grown sons; grown); Sarah Peelor (daughter); Catherine Peelor (daughter)
- Executors
- Moses Guess; Moses McCown
- Witnesses
- Anthony Cole; Thomas James
- Land
- old place whereon Iley Browning now lives
- Also named
- Iley Browning (land resident)
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 35.
- Abstract: Ruth Herndon Shields, Abstracts of Wills Recorded in Orange County, North Carolina, 1800–1850 (1958), page 105.
- 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).
