Orange County Indexed
Will of James Patten
Will Book F, page 45 · dated 28 November 1839 · proved February 1840
James Patten named wife Elenor and twelve children, directed equal schooling for younger children, and appointed Elenor and James Johnston executors.
- Kind of paper
- Will
- Testator
- James Patten (printed JAMES PATTEN)
- Dated
- 28 November 1839
- Proved
- February 1840 court
- Family named
- Elenor (wife); Samuel (All my children); Margaret (All my children); James (All my children); Jane (All my children); Isabel (All my children); Johnston (All my children); Mary (All my children); George (All my children); Nancy (All my children); Elenor (All my children); William (All my children); Alexander (All my children)
- Executors
- Elenor (Wife); James Johnston
- Witnesses
- Alexander Patton; Sam'l King
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 45.
- Abstract: Ruth Herndon Shields, Abstracts of Wills Recorded in Orange County, North Carolina, 1800–1850 (1958), page 185.
- 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).
