Orange County Indexed
Will of Sarah Freeman
Will Book F, page 82 · dated 20 May 1835 · proved November 1840
Sarah Freeman left land on Rocky River in Chatham County to husband Richard Freeman and appointed John Newlin executor.
- Kind of paper
- Will
- Testator
- Sarah Freeman (printed SARAH FREEMAN)
- Dated
- 20 May 1835
- Proved
- November 1840 court
- A second reading
- Mark Chilton’s index of the will books gives the date as 20 May 1834 and the probate as November 1841. Check the will book to settle it.
- Family named
- Richard Freeman (husband)
- Executor
- John Newlin
- Witnesses
- John Pope; M. H. Britt
- Land
- land in Chatham County on Rocky River
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 82.
- Abstract: Ruth Herndon Shields, Abstracts of Wills Recorded in Orange County, North Carolina, 1800–1850 (1958), page 190.
- 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).
