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Orange County Indexed

Will of Temperance (x) Promrose.

Will Book F, page 114 · dated 19 October 1835 · proved May 1836

Temperance Promrose’s will was recorded again with a statement of property previously given to legatees.

Kind of paper
Will
Testator
Temperance (x) Promrose. (printed TEMPERANCE (x) PROMROSE.)
Dated
19 October 1835
Proved
May 1836 court
A second reading
Mark Chilton’s index of the will books gives the testator as Temperance Primrose. Check the will book to settle it.

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 114.
  • Abstract: Ruth Herndon Shields, Abstracts of Wills Recorded in Orange County, North Carolina, 1800–1850 (1958), page 194.
  • 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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