Orange County Indexed
Will of Priscilla (x) Carrington
Will Book F, page 190 · dated 23 April 1843 · proved May 1844
Priscilla Carrington named son Morgan and married daughters Polly Parrish and Dicey Cozart and appointed George W. Jones executor.
- Kind of paper
- Will
- Testator
- Priscilla (x) Carrington (printed PRISCILLA (x) CARRINGTON)
- Dated
- 23 April 1843
- Proved
- May 1844 court
- A second reading
- Mark Chilton’s index of the will books gives the date as 25 April 1843. Check the will book to settle it.
- Family named
- Morgan (son); Polly Parrish (daughter wife of James Parrish); Dicey Cozart (daughter wife of Wm. Cozart); James Parrish; Wm. Cozart (of Person County)
- Executor
- George W. Jones
- Witnesses
- Willis Bowling ?; David Parrish; George W. Jones
- In the paper’s words
- “advanced in years”
Reading note: Shields questions Willis Bowling ?.
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 190.
- Abstract: Ruth Herndon Shields, Abstracts of Wills Recorded in Orange County, North Carolina, 1800–1850 (1958), page 203.
- 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).
