Orange County Indexed
Will of George (x) Paisley
Will Book F, page 262 · dated 16 July 1830 · proved May 1845
George Paisley named four children and guardians and executors Johnston Freeland and Moses Gibson; a compiler note identifies his marriage to Elizabeth Freeland.
- Kind of paper
- Will
- Testator
- George (x) Paisley (printed GEORGE (x) PAISLEY)
- Dated
- 16 July 1830
- Proved
- May 1845 court
- A second reading
- Mark Chilton’s index of the will books gives the testator as George Presley. Check the will book to settle it.
- Family named
- Elizabeth Freeland (marriage note); Joseph (son); John (son); Luisa (daughter); Mary Ann (daughter)
- Executors
- Johnston Freeland; Moses Gibson
- Guardians
- Johnston Freeland; Moses Gibson
- Witnesses
- Joseph Gibson; Josn Freeland; John Paisley
- Also named
- George Paisley (marriage note); Johnston Freeland (bondsman in marriage note)
- In the paper’s words
- “low and weak”
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 262.
- Abstract: Ruth Herndon Shields, Abstracts of Wills Recorded in Orange County, North Carolina, 1800–1850 (1958).
- 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).
