Orange County Indexed
Will of Alexander Allen
Will Book E, pages 373–375 · dated 10 September 1835 · proved February 1836
Alexander Allen provided for his wife and five children and appointed George Mebane and brother-in-law John Scott executors.
- Kind of paper
- Will
- Testator
- Alexander Allen (printed ALEXANDER ALLEN)
- Dated
- 10 September 1835
- Proved
- February 1836 court
- Family named
- Alexander (infant son); John (son); Fanny (daughter); Mary Jane (daughter); Nancy (daughter); John Scott (my brother-in-law)
- Executors
- George Mebane (friend and kinsman); John Scott (my brother-in-law)
- Witnesses
- James Patton; James White
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 373–375.
- Abstract: Ruth Herndon Shields, Abstracts of Wills Recorded in Orange County, North Carolina, 1800–1850 (1958), page 165.
- 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).
