Orange County Indexed
Codicil of Samuel Harlan
proved July 1754
Samuel Harlan's annexed codicil was proved with his will; Elizabeth Harlan and Aaron Harland qualified as executors.
- Kind of paper
- Codicil
- Testator
- Samuel Harlan (printed SAMUEL HARLAN)
- Proved
- July 1754 court
- In the court minutes
- Family named
- Elizabeth Harlan (widow of the deceased)
- Executors
- Elizabeth Harlan (widow of the deceased); Aaron Harland
- Witnesses
- James Vassey (?); Valentine Hollingsworth (Quaker)
- Also named
- Richard Parker (On motion of)
Reading note: Will and codicil share one court-minute account; individual contents not abstracted. Witness James Vassey (?) uncertain.
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
- The original is in the State Archives of North Carolina; it was never recorded in the Orange County will books.
- 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 3.
