Orange County Indexed
Will of John (x) Christopher
Will Book F, page 56 · dated 21 June 1840 · proved August 1840
John Christopher named wife Pollay, sons, other children, and two Stewart grandsons and appointed Thomas Lynch executor.
- Kind of paper
- Will
- Testator
- John (x) Christopher (printed JOHN (x) CHRISTOPHER)
- Dated
- 21 June 1840
- Proved
- August 1840 court
- A second reading
- Mark Chilton’s index of the will books gives the date as 26 June 1840. Check the will book to settle it.
- Family named
- Pollay (wife); James Christopher (son); John Christopher (son); Elizabeth Compton (other children); Jane Scott (other children); Nancy Christopher (other children); Sideny Smith (other children); Frances Ward (other children); Eliza Ward (other children); Matty Christopher (other children); John C. Stewart (grandson, Pollay Stuerts two sons); Calvin B. Stewart (grandson, Pollay Stuerts two sons)
- Executor
- Thomas Lynch
- Witnesses
- James Ward; Empson Walker
- Land
- my Finley tract
- Also named
- Pollay Stuerts
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 56.
- Abstract: Ruth Herndon Shields, Abstracts of Wills Recorded in Orange County, North Carolina, 1800–1850 (1958), page 187.
- 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).
