I asked the "next friend" question some time ago on another list and  someone
was so kind to reply with this bit of information they had found:

Jo White Linn in *Rowan County Register* 1 (May 1986): 78 in a list of 63
*Tips For Genealogists Working in North Carolina Records* for #14  listed:
"German wills using the term "my friend" in appointing executors,  etc., have
to be examined carefully, for "friend" usually meant a relative such  as
cousin or brother-in-law, someone related outside the immediate  family."


Mike Daniel

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