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Orange County Indexed

Will of Perry Mitchell

Will Book E, page 48 · dated 9 September 1823 · proved November 1823

Perry Mitchell left inherited land to Polly and appointed Polly and Eli Murray executors.

Kind of paper
Will
Testator
Perry Mitchell (printed PERRY MITCHELL)
Dated
9 September 1823
Proved
November 1823 court
Family named
Polly (wife)
Executors
Polly (wife); Eli Murray
Witnesses
Benjamin Burnside; John Compton
Land
land left me by will of my father at the death of my mother

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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