Orange County Indexed
Will of Hardeman Duke
Will Book F, page 35 · dated 27 July 1835 · proved November 1839
Hardeman Duke left property to daughter Betsy and her husband John Duke, then to her children, and appointed two executors.
- Kind of paper
- Will
- Testator
- Hardeman Duke (printed HARDEMAN DUKE)
- Dated
- 27 July 1835
- Proved
- November 1839 court
- Family named
- Betsy (daughter); John Duke (her husband)
- Executors
- Willie P. Mangum (trusty friends); John Moize (trusty friends)
- Witnesses
- Benjamin Hester; Charity A. Mangum; William P. Mangum
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 35.
- 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).
