Orange County Indexed
Will of Mary A. Palmer
Will Book F, page 47 · dated 7 October 1839 · proved February 1840
Mary Palmer named sons James N., Nathaniel, and John C. Palmer; no executor was listed.
- Kind of paper
- Will
- Testator
- Mary A. Palmer (printed MARY A. PALMER)
- Dated
- 7 October 1839
- Proved
- February 1840 court
- A second reading
- Mark Chilton’s index of the will books gives the date as 7 February 1839. Check the will book to settle it.
- Family named
- James N. Palmer (son); Nathaniel Palmer (son); John C. Palmer (son)
- Witnesses
- Thomas Fawcett; R. W. Lassiter
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 47.
- 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).
