Orange County Indexed
Will of William Hornaday
Will Book F, page 28 · dated 27 May 1839 · proved August 1839
William Hornaday left plantations to sons Alfred and Balam, named wife Mary and daughters, and appointed Alfred Hornaday and Wm. Thompson executors.
- Kind of paper
- Will
- Testator
- William Hornaday (printed WILLIAM HORNADAY)
- Dated
- 27 May 1839
- Proved
- August 1839 court
- Family named
- Mary (wife); Alfred (son); Balam (son); Alfred Hornaday (son); Anna (minor daughters); Hester (minor daughters); Jemima (minor daughters); Mary Ann (minor daughters); Ruth Elinor (minor daughters); Sally (daughter); Rebecca (daughter); Lewis Hornaday (my brother; deceased)
- Executors
- Alfred Hornaday (son); Wm. Thompson (friend)
- Witnesses
- Jer. Piggott; B. Adams
- Land
- plantation that formerly belonged to Christopher Hornaday; home plantation including land devised to me by my brother Lewis Hornaday deceased
- Also named
- Christopher Hornaday
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 28.
- Abstract: Ruth Herndon Shields, Abstracts of Wills Recorded in Orange County, North Carolina, 1800–1850 (1958), page 183.
- 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).
