Orange County Indexed
Will of John Blackwood
Will Book F, page 174 · dated 9 November 1843 · proved November 1843
John Blackwood devised town and rural property, named wife Mary and children, and appointed David K. Blackwood executor.
- Kind of paper
- Will
- Testator
- John Blackwood (printed JOHN BLACKWOOD)
- Dated
- 9 November 1843
- Proved
- November 1843 court
- Family named
- Mary (wife); David K. Blackwood (son); John J. (son); Johnston Blackwood (son); Mary Strayhorn (daughter); Margaret McCauley (daughter)
- Executor
- David K. Blackwood
- Witnesses
- C. W. Johnston; James Gattis
- Land
- property in Town of Hillsboro adjoining lot of Thomas Faucett now occupied by Charles Cooley; tract of land on Eno River joining John McCauley; Mountain Tract
- Places
- Town of Hillsboro; Eno River; Mountain Tract
- Also named
- Thomas Faucett; Charles Cooley; John McCauley
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 174.
- Abstract: Ruth Herndon Shields, Abstracts of Wills Recorded in Orange County, North Carolina, 1800–1850 (1958), page 201.
- 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).
