Orange County Indexed
Will of John Scarlett
Will Book E, page 412 · dated 24 April 1837 · proved May 1837
John Scarlett named wife Scyntha, sons, daughters, and grandson John Gaston Carrell and appointed son Page Scarlett executor.
- Kind of paper
- Will
- Testator
- John Scarlett (printed JOHN SCARLETT)
- Dated
- 24 April 1837
- Proved
- May 1837 court
- Family named
- Scyntha (wife); Allen (son); Page (son); Henderson Scarlett (son); Page Scarlett (son); Nancy (daughter); Mariah (daughter); Delilah Scarlett (daughter); Nancy Elizabeth Carrell (daughter); John Gaston Carrell (grandson)
- Executor
- Page Scarlett (son)
- Witnesses
- Silas M. Link; Susan McQuiston
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 412.
- Abstract: Ruth Herndon Shields, Abstracts of Wills Recorded in Orange County, North Carolina, 1800–1850 (1958), page 172.
- 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).
