Orange County Indexed
Will of Daniel Wilkinson
Will Book F, page 124 · dated 20 December 1842 · proved February 1842
Daniel Wilkinson named wife Elizabeth, four sons, and unnamed daughters and appointed sons Thomas and John executors.
- Kind of paper
- Will
- Testator
- Daniel Wilkinson (printed DANIEL WILKINSON)
- Dated
- 20 December 1842
- Proved
- February 1842 court
- A second reading
- As the abstract prints them, the will was proved before it was dated, so one of the dates is wrong. Check the will book to settle it.
- Family named
- Elizabeth (wife); Thomas (son; oldest); John (son); William (son); Samuel Wilkinson (son)
- Executors
- Thomas (son); John (son)
- Witnesses
- Samuel McCracken; Allen Brown
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 124.
- Abstract: Ruth Herndon Shields, Abstracts of Wills Recorded in Orange County, North Carolina, 1800–1850 (1958), page 195.
- 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).
