Orange County Indexed
Will of Lucy Hillyard
Will Book E, page 39 · dated 6 February 1822 · proved August 1823
Lucy Hillyard left her small estate to daughters, appointed Nancy guardian, named sons, and directed a Chapel Hill lot sold.
- Kind of paper
- Will
- Testator
- Lucy Hillyard (printed LUCY HILLYARD)
- Dated
- 6 February 1822
- Proved
- August 1823 court
- Family named
- William (son); John (son); Nancy (eldest daughter); Lucy (daughter); Martha (daughter); Mary (daughter)
- Executor
- Elisha Mitchell (of Orange County)
- Guardian
- Nancy (eldest daughter; guardian of the three other daughters)
- Witnesses
- William Pannill; Samuel Pannill
- Land
- Unimproved lot in Chapel Hill, N.C.
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 39.
- Abstract: Ruth Herndon Shields, Abstracts of Wills Recorded in Orange County, North Carolina, 1800–1850 (1958), page 106.
- 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).
