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Orange County Indexed

Will of Letty (x) Neece

Will Book F, page 21 · dated 12 December 1832 · proved February 1839

Letty Neece named oldest daughter Milly, son Elias, and four other beneficiaries and appointed Powel Anthony and Eli Sharp executors.

Kind of paper
Will
Testator
Letty (x) Neece (printed LETTY (x) NEECE)
Dated
12 December 1832
Proved
February 1839 court
Family named
Elias (son); Milly (my oldest daughter)
Also left something
Powel Anthony (relationship not stated); Eli Sharp (relationship not stated); Polly (relationship not stated); Prisee (relationship not stated)
Executors
Powel Anthony; Eli Sharp
Witnesses
Hiram Steel; Isaac Sharp

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 21.
  • Abstract: Ruth Herndon Shields, Abstracts of Wills Recorded in Orange County, North Carolina, 1800–1850 (1958), page 182.
  • 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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