Orange County Indexed
Will of Robert Melton
dated 24 April 1759 · proved November 1759
Robert Melton named five sons and appointed his son Nathan Melton executor.
- Kind of paper
- Will
- Testator
- Robert Melton (printed ROBERT MELTON)
- Dated
- 24 April 1759
- Proved
- November 1759 court
- Family named
- James (son); Nathaniel (son); Nathan (son); Isesum (son); Ancel (son)
- Executor
- Nathan Melton (son)
- Witnesses
- James Sellers; Mary Stratton; Richard Parker (attorney)
- Also named
- James Watson (Clerk)
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 246, 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.
