Will of Samuel Scott

Samuel Scott named wife Nancy, sons, daughters, granddaughter Nancy, and Fanny Allen and appointed John and Henderson Scott executors.

Kind of paper

Will

Testator

Samuel Scott (printed SAMUEL SCOTT)

Dated

4 April 1837

Proved

November 1841 court

Family named

Nancy (wife); John Scott (son); Henderson Scott (son); Jane Allen (daughter); Fanny Scott (daughter); Hannah Murphy (daughter); Nancy Scott (granddaughter daughter of my son John Scott)

Also left something

Fanny Allen (daughter of Alexander Allen deceased)

Executors

John Scott; Henderson Scott

Witnesses

John Trolinger; Benjamin Trolinger

Also named

Alexander Allen (deceased)

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 F, page 107.
• Abstract: Ruth Herndon Shields, Abstracts of Wills Recorded in Orange County, North Carolina, 1800–1850 (1958), page 193.
• 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).