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Orange County Indexed

Will of Rebecca (x) Dollar

Will Book F, page 268 · dated 4 April 1845 · proved November 1845

Rebecca Dollar provided for daughter Susan Dollar and grandson William Glenn, son of James Glenn; Susan was executrix.

Kind of paper
Will
Testator
Rebecca (x) Dollar (printed REBECCA (x) DOLLAR)
Dated
4 April 1845
Proved
November 1845 court
Family named
Susan Dollar (daughter); Susan (daughter); William Glenn (my grandson; son of James Glenn)
Executor
Susan (daughter)
Witnesses
J. Turner; James Turner
Also named
James Glenn (father of William Glenn)
In the paper’s words
“pension due me from the United States”

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 268.
  • Abstract: Ruth Herndon Shields, Abstracts of Wills Recorded in Orange County, North Carolina, 1800–1850 (1958), page 214.
  • 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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