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Orange County Indexed

Will of William H. Parker

Will Book E, page 380 · dated 11 May 1836 · proved May 1836

William Parker left the Aldrige Tract to wife Jane, named daughter Anzalette, and ordered the Vincent Tapp tract sold.

Kind of paper
Will
Testator
William H. Parker (printed WILLIAM H. PARKER)
Dated
11 May 1836
Proved
May 1836 court
Family named
Jane (wife); Anzalette M. Parker (daughter)
Executor
George C. Ray
Witnesses
Hugh Woods; H. Terry; Edward Riley
Land
plantation in Person County known by the name of the Aldrige Tract lying on waters of Flat River; plantation in Orange County known as Vincent Tapp tract
Places
Person County; Flat River; Orange County; Aldrige Tract; Vincent Tapp tract
In the paper’s words
“weak in body”

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 380.
  • Abstract: Ruth Herndon Shields, Abstracts of Wills Recorded in Orange County, North Carolina, 1800–1850 (1958), page 166.
  • 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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