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Orange County Indexed

Will of Isaac Cantrell

Will Book F, page 13 · dated 10 December 1837 · proved May 1838

Isaac Cantrell named wife Rutha and unnamed children and appointed Tutha Cantrell executrix.

Kind of paper
Will
Testator
Isaac Cantrell (printed ISAAC CANTRELL)
Dated
10 December 1837
Proved
May 1838 court
Family named
Rutha (wife); Tutha Cantrell (wife)
Executor
Tutha Cantrell (wife)
Witnesses
John Tapscott; Joseph Simpson; George W. Taylor

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 13.
  • Abstract: Ruth Herndon Shields, Abstracts of Wills Recorded in Orange County, North Carolina, 1800–1850 (1958), page 180.
  • 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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