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Orange County Indexed

Will of Peter Ingold

Will Book E, page 89 · dated 28 August 1818 · proved November 1825

Peter Ingold provided for his wife and son Adam, excluded other heirs, and appointed Adam executor.

Kind of paper
Will
Testator
Peter Ingold (printed PETER INGOLD)
Dated
28 August 1818
Proved
November 1825 court
Family named
Adam (son)
Executor
Adam (son)
Witnesses
Jacob Sherer; John Garrett; Peter Ingold
Also named
William Ingold (land boundary owner; no relationship mentioned)

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 89.
  • Abstract: Ruth Herndon Shields, Abstracts of Wills Recorded in Orange County, North Carolina, 1800–1850 (1958), page 115.
  • 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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