Orange County Indexed
Will of George Foust
Will Book E, pages 382–384 · dated 17 May 1828 · proved May 1836
George Foust distributed land among his wife, sons, daughters, and descendants and appointed four sons executors.
- Kind of paper
- Will
- Testator
- George Foust (printed GEORGE FOUST)
- Dated
- 17 May 1828
- Proved
- May 1836 court
- Family named
- Barbara (wife); Daniel Foust (son); George Foust (son); Peter Foust (son); William Foust (son); Henry Foust (son); John Foust (my son; Deceased); George (son); Peter (son); William (son); Catherine (daughter wife of John Clap); Barbara (daughter wife of Joseph Bason); Sally (daughter wife of Jeremiah Holt); Sally (granddaughter, daughter of my son John Foust Deceased); John Foust (my brother); John Clap; Joseph Bason; Jeremiah Holt; Barbara Catherine Albright (great-granddaughter)
- Executors
- George (son); Peter (son); William (son); Henry Foust (son)
- Witnesses
- Joseph Clendennin; John Holmes; A.D.Murphey; Thomas Ruffin (18 September 1833, after original witnesses died); Will K. Ruffin (18 September 1833, after original witnesses died)
- Land
- 250 acres in Guilford County; plantation where he now lives; land which I bought from Old Woman Ray and her son Robert; land from James Ray from the Fayetteville Road to the Alamance; land from Old Aaron Sharp; plantation from John Ray; 100 acres from heirs of Widow Ray; plantation whereon I now live; 50 acres from James Tinnen; plantation from David Efland; half of plantation John Foust lived on
- Places
- Guilford County; Fayetteville Road; Alamance
- Also named
- John Cook; William Ray; Ray; Robert; James Ray; Aaron Sharp; John Ray; Widow Ray; James Tinnen; David Efland
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 382–384.
- 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).
