Orange County Indexed
Will of John Campbell
Will Book A, page 189 · dated 22 February 1761 · proved May 1775
John Campbell named wife Margaret, three sons and two sons-in-law, devised land, and appointed Margaret and John Ferguson executors.
- Kind of paper
- Will
- Testator
- John Campbell (printed JOHN CAMPBELL), tailor
- Dated
- 22 February 1761
- Proved
- May 1775 court
- Family named
- Margaret (Wife); Robert (son); David (son); Joseph (son); John Ferguson (son-in-law); Andrew Ferguson (son-in-law)
- Executors
- Margaret (wife); John Ferguson (son-in-law)
- Witnesses
- Samuel Bell; Thomas Dobbins
- Land
- land adjoining James Stewart's line; land in Albemarle County, Virginia
- Places
- Albemarle County, Virginia
- Also named
- James Stewart
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 189.
- 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).
- 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).
