Orange County Indexed
Will of James (x) Stanford
Will Book F, page 152 · dated 22 December 1834 · proved February 1843
James Stanford named son Robert, three daughters, and grandson James Stanford and appointed Robert executor.
- Kind of paper
- Will
- Testator
- James (x) Stanford (printed JAMES (x) STANFORD)
- Dated
- 22 December 1834
- Proved
- February 1843 court
- A second reading
- Mark Chilton’s index of the will books gives the testator as James Standford. Check the will book to settle it.
- Family named
- Robert Stanford (son); Alexander (son); Robert (son); Peggy Stanford (daughter); Jinny Stanford (daughter); Elizabeth Dixon (daughter); James Stanford (grandson son of Alexander)
- Executor
- Robert (son)
- Witnesses
- Peyton P. Moor; Wm. McCrory
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 152.
- Abstract: Ruth Herndon Shields, Abstracts of Wills Recorded in Orange County, North Carolina, 1800–1850 (1958), page 197.
- 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).
