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Orange County Indexed

Will of Nancy (x) Crutchfield

Will Book F, page 273 · dated 22 August 1845 · proved February 1846

Nancy Crutchfield named grandson John Workman, daughter Nancy Stubbins, and sons John, Enoch, and James Crutchfield; Enoch was executor.

Kind of paper
Will
Testator
Nancy (x) Crutchfield (printed NANCY (x) CRUTCHFIELD)
Dated
22 August 1845
Proved
February 1846 court
Family named
John (son); Enoch (son); James Crutchfield (son); Nancy Stubbins (daughter); John Workman (grandson)
Executor
Enoch (son)
Witnesses
Richard Tapp; James H. Thompson

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 273.
  • 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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