Orange County Indexed
Will of John Holt
Will Book E, page 55 · dated 11 May 1824 · proved May 1824
John Holt named Molly and three children and appointed cousin William Holt executor.
- Kind of paper
- Will
- Testator
- John Holt (printed JOHN HOLT)
- Dated
- 11 May 1824
- Proved
- May 1824 court
- Family named
- Molly (wife); Elizabeth (my three children); Hezekiah (my three children); Milly (my three children)
- Executor
- William Holt (cousin)
- Witnesses
- Peter L. Ray; Mason Tarpley
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 55.
- Abstract: Ruth Herndon Shields, Abstracts of Wills Recorded in Orange County, North Carolina, 1800–1850 (1958), page 109.
- 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).
