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Orange County Indexed

Will of David White

Will Book E, pages 508–509 · dated 11 July 1833 · proved November 1837

David White named wife Betsy, grandchildren, son-in-law Samuel Kerr, Fanny White, and John Allen and appointed Kerr and Alexander Allen executors.

Kind of paper
Will
Testator
David White (printed DAVID WHITE)
Dated
11 July 1833
Proved
November 1837 court
Family named
Betsy (wife); David White Kerr (grandchild); Margaret Graham Kerr (grandchild); Samuel Kerr (son-in-law); Alexander Allen (brother-in-law)
Also left something
Fanny White (daughter of Samuel White); John Allen (son of Alexander Allen)
Executors
Samuel Kerr (son-in-law); Alexander Allen (brother-in-law)
Witness
James A. Craig
Also named
Samuel White

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, pages 508–509.
  • Abstract: Ruth Herndon Shields, Abstracts of Wills Recorded in Orange County, North Carolina, 1800–1850 (1958), page 176.
  • 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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