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Orange County Indexed

Will of Daniel Huffman

Will Book F, page 222 · dated 8 July 1844 · proved August 1844

Daniel Huffman named wife Elizabeth and daughters, left John two hundred acres, and appointed John executor.

Kind of paper
Will
Testator
Daniel Huffman (printed DANIEL HUFFMAN)
Dated
8 July 1844
Proved
August 1844 court
Family named
Elizabeth (wife); John (son); Rachel (married daughters); Polly or Patty (married daughters); Catherine (married daughters); Lydia (married daughters); Sally (married daughters); Susan (youngest daughter)
Executor
John (son)
Witnesses
Joseph J. Trolinger; Daniel A. Montgomery
Land
200 acres on which he now lives

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 222.
  • Abstract: Ruth Herndon Shields, Abstracts of Wills Recorded in Orange County, North Carolina, 1800–1850 (1958), page 207.
  • 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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