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Orange County Indexed

Will of David (x) Williams

Will Book F, page 469 · dated 27 April 1849 · proved August 1850

DAVID (x) WILLIAMS made a will; the compiler lists only the testator and dates.

Kind of paper
Will
Testator
David (x) Williams (printed DAVID (x) WILLIAMS)
Dated
27 April 1849
Proved
August 1850 court
A second reading
Mark Chilton’s index of the will books gives the date as 27 April 1850. Check the will book to settle it.
In the paper’s words
“in feeble health”

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 469.
  • Abstract: Ruth Herndon Shields, Abstracts of Wills Recorded in Orange County, North Carolina, 1800–1850 (1958), page 219.
  • 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).
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