Will of Peter Walker

Peter Walker named Elizabeth, nephews and niece Sarah and appointed brother Andrew Walker and nephew John Pickett executors.

Kind of paper

Will

Testator

Peter Walker (printed PETER WALKER)

Dated

3 July 1824

Proved

November 1824 court

Family named

Elizabeth (wife); William Walker (father of nephew; deceased); Andrew Walker (brother); William Walker (nephew, son of William Walker deceased); Peter Walker (nephew, son of my brother Andrew); Sarah Walker (niece, daughter of my brother Andrew); John Pickett (nephew)

Also left something

Lemuel Pickett (son of John)

Executors

Andrew Walker (brother); John Pickett (nephew)

Witnesses

Wm. I. Bingham; Vicy King; Nancy Hamilton

Also named

John (father of Lemuel Pickett)

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 64.
• Abstract: Ruth Herndon Shields, Abstracts of Wills Recorded in Orange County, North Carolina, 1800–1850 (1958), page 110.
• 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).