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Orange County Indexed

Will of Petter Waggoner

Will Book E, page 367 · dated 25 January 1834 · proved November 1835

Petter Waggoner named wife Margaret, son Daniel, seven daughters, and granddaughter Nancy and appointed Daniel Waggoner and George Smith executors.

Kind of paper
Will
Testator
Petter Waggoner (printed PETTER WAGGONER)
Dated
25 January 1834
Proved
November 1835 court
Family named
Margaret (wife); Daniel (son); Daniel Waggoner (son); Barbary (daughter); Elizabeth (daughter); Catherine (daughter); Margaret (daughter); Mary (daughter); Rosanna (daughter); Hannah (daughter); Nancy Waggoner (granddaughter daughter of Peter)
Executors
Daniel Waggoner (son); George Smith
Witnesses
John Boon; Jonathan Harvey
Also named
Peter (deceased)

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 367.
  • Abstract: Ruth Herndon Shields, Abstracts of Wills Recorded in Orange County, North Carolina, 1800–1850 (1958), page 163.
  • 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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