Orange County Indexed
Will of William L. Durham
Will Book F, page 34 · dated 8 March 1837 · proved November 1839
William Durham named sons, deceased daughters and son, and granddaughter Nancy Durham and appointed three sons executors.
- Kind of paper
- Will
- Testator
- William L. Durham (printed WILLIAM L. DURHAM)
- Dated
- 8 March 1837
- Proved
- November 1839 court
- A second reading
- Mark Chilton’s index of the will books gives the date as 28 March 1837. Check the will book to settle it.
- Family named
- Archibald Durham (son); Thomas (son); Isaac Durham (son; deceased); Archibald (my five sons); Isaiah (my five sons); William (my five sons); John (my five sons); William Durham (three sons); John Durham (three sons); Susannah Jolley (daughter; deceased); Frances Lacy (daughter; deceased); Nancy Durham (granddaughter wife of Mark Durham)
- Executors
- Archibald Durham (three sons); William Durham (three sons); John Durham (three sons)
- Witnesses
- R. C. Poe; B. Strowd
- Also named
- Mark Durham
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 34.
- Abstract: Ruth Herndon Shields, Abstracts of Wills Recorded in Orange County, North Carolina, 1800–1850 (1958), page 184.
- 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).
