Will of Miriam (x) Strain

Miriam Strain named sons, daughter Miriam, deceased son Alexander’s estate, and five granddaughters and appointed Samuel D. Strain executor.

Kind of paper

Will

Testator

Miriam (x) Strain (printed MIRIAM (x) STRAIN)

Dated

1842

Proved

August 1843 court

A second reading

Mark Chilton’s index of the will books gives the date as 13 May 1842. Check the will book to settle it.

Family named

David Strain (son); Samuel D. Strain (son); John Strain (son); William D. Strain (son); Alexander Strain (son; dec’d); Miriam Strain (daughter); Miriam Crutchfield (granddaughter); Miriam Tate (granddaughter); Miriam Nelson (granddaughter); Miriam Freeland (granddaughter); Miriam Davis (granddaughter)

Also left something

D. Strain

Executor

Samuel D. Strain (son)

Witness

Samuel S. Clayter

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 163.
• Abstract: Ruth Herndon Shields, Abstracts of Wills Recorded in Orange County, North Carolina, 1800–1850 (1958), page 199.
• 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).