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Orange County Indexed

Will of James Hopkins

dated 8 February 1759 · proved March 1759

James Hopkins mentioned unnamed children and appointed William Hopkins, William Phillips and John Hopkins executors.

Kind of paper
Will
Testator
James Hopkins (printed JAMES HOPKINS), of St Mathews Parish
Dated
8 February 1759
Proved
March 1759 court
Executors
William Hopkins; William Phillips; John Hopkins
Witnesses
Allicksander Ferguson; John Dobbins; David Smith

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

  • Known from J. Bryan Grimes’s North Carolina will abstracts, page 171, as Shields gives it.
  • Abstract: Ruth Herndon Shields, Abstracts of Wills Recorded 1752 through 1800 in Orange County, North Carolina, Will Books A, B and C (Davie Poplar Chapter NSDAR, revised edition 1966), page 4.
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