Orange County Indexed
Will of Fielding (x) Lewis
Will Book F, page 401 · dated 27 February 1847 · proved February 1848
Fielding Lewis named wife Nancy, daughters Mary and Nancy, and other unnamed children; son John C. Lewis was executor.
- Kind of paper
- Will
- Testator
- Fielding (x) Lewis (printed FIELDING (x) LEWIS)
- Dated
- 27 February 1847
- Proved
- February 1848 court
- Family named
- Nancy (wife); John C. Lewis (son); Mary (daughter); Nancy (daughter)
- Executor
- John C. Lewis (son)
- Witnesses
- Joseph Proctor; John Pool
- In the paper’s words
- “rest of my children that has married and left me”
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 401.
- Abstract: Ruth Herndon Shields, Abstracts of Wills Recorded in Orange County, North Carolina, 1800–1850 (1958), page 218.
- 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).
