Orange County Indexed
Will of Martin Palmer
Will Book E, pages 358–361 · dated 26 July 1831 · proved August 1835
Martin Palmer provided for sons and married daughters and appointed Thomas Clancy and Wm. Huntingdon executors and trustees.
- Kind of paper
- Will
- Testator
- Martin Palmer (printed MARTIN PALMER)
- Dated
- 26 July 1831
- Proved
- August 1835 court
- A second reading
- Mark Chilton’s index of the will books gives the probate as May 1835. Check the will book to settle it.
- Family named
- William Palmer (son); James Palmer (son); Mary (daughter); Sarah (daughter); Elizabeth Peacock (daughter wife of Richard Peacock); Temperance Faucett (daughter wife of John Faucett); Agnes (daughter wife of Henry G. Parish); Roswell Huntingdon (her husband); John Rasberry (her husband); Thomas Clancy (son-in-law); Richard Peacock; John Faucett; Henry G. Parish
- Executors
- Thomas Clancy; Wm. Huntingdon
- Trustees
- William Huntingdon; Thomas Clancy; Wm. Huntingdon
- Witnesses
- J. W. Norwood; James Faucett
- Also named
- Nancy (his wife)
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 358–361.
- Abstract: Ruth Herndon Shields, Abstracts of Wills Recorded in Orange County, North Carolina, 1800–1850 (1958), page 162.
- 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).
