Orange County Indexed
Will of Isabel Johnston
Will Book E, page 393 · dated 4 August 1836 · proved November 1836
Isabel Johnston named youngest daughter Fanny and daughter Jane Thompson and appointed James Johnston sole executor.
- Kind of paper
- Will
- Testator
- Isabel Johnston (printed ISABEL JOHNSTON)
- Dated
- 4 August 1836
- Proved
- November 1836 court
- A second reading
- Mark Chilton’s index of the will books gives the testator as Isabel Johnson. Check the will book to settle it.
- Family named
- Fanny (youngest daughter); Jane Thompson (daughter)
- Executor
- James Johnston
- Witnesses
- Ja mes Patton; Samuel Patton
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 393.
- Abstract: Ruth Herndon Shields, Abstracts of Wills Recorded in Orange County, North Carolina, 1800–1850 (1958), page 169.
- 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).
