Orange County Indexed
Will of John Davis
Will Book E, page 92 · dated 16 April 1824 · proved November 1825
John Davis named Elizabeth, six sons and five daughters and appointed James and Sampson Moore executors.
- Kind of paper
- Will
- Testator
- John Davis (printed JOHN DAVIS)
- Dated
- 16 April 1824
- Proved
- November 1825 court
- Family named
- Elizabeth (wife); Anderson (son); James (son); John (son); William (son); Robert (son); Wyatt (son); Sally Beville (daughter); Nancy Raney (daughter); Frances Beville (daughter); Mary Davis (daughter); Elizabeth Gattis (daughter)
- Executors
- James (son); Sampson Moore
- Witnesses
- Jack B. Leigh; Anne Leigh
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 92.
- Abstract: Ruth Herndon Shields, Abstracts of Wills Recorded in Orange County, North Carolina, 1800–1850 (1958), page 116.
- 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).
