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Orange County Indexed

Will of Ludwick Waynick

Will Book E, page 48 · dated 4 December 1807 · proved November 1823

Ludwick Waynick left his estate to Margaret unless she remarried, when it returned to unnamed children; Margaret was sole executrix.

Kind of paper
Will
Testator
Ludwick Waynick (printed LUDWICK WAYNICK)
Dated
4 December 1807
Proved
November 1823 court
Family named
Margaret (wife)
Executor
Margaret (wife)
Witnesses
Thomas C. Scott; John Southard

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 48.
  • Abstract: Ruth Herndon Shields, Abstracts of Wills Recorded in Orange County, North Carolina, 1800–1850 (1958), page 107.
  • 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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