Will of Michael Ellett

Michael Ellett named Wm Phillips sole heir and executor and listed money and a saddle owed by four men.

Kind of paper

Will

Testator

Michael Ellett (printed MICHAEL ELLETT)

Dated

5 October 1756

Proved

December 1756 court

Also left something

Wm Phillips (Sole heir, no relationship stated)

Executor

Wm. Phillips

Witnesses

Wm. Offill; James Hopkins; Wm. Hopkins

Money and goods

A saddle & 4 shillings to be demanded of Joseph Bugg; 7 shillings, etc to be demanded of David Phillips; 1 pound 10 shillings to be demanded of James Lindsey; 3 shillings 4 pence to be demanded of Samuel Mains

Also named

Joseph Bugg; David Phillips; James Lindsey; Samuel Mains

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 A, page 1.
• 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 7.
• 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 80001, “Record of Wills, 1752–1795, Vols. A, B” (State Archives film).