Will of Joseph (or Jones?) Parker

Joseph Parker named wife Rebecca and nine children; Thomas Person and Edward Bumpass were executors.

Kind of paper

Will

Testator

Joseph (or Jones?) Parker (printed JOSEPH (or JONES?) PARKER)

Dated

21 October 1771

Proved

May 1775 court

Family named

Rebecca (Wife); Richard (my son; to come of age at 21); Stephen (child, named in this order); David (child, named in this order); Powell (child, named in this order); Francis (child, named in this order); Abner (child, named in this order); Winny (child, named in this order); Sally (child, named in this order); Betty (child, named in this order)

Executors

Thomas Person; Edward Bumpass

Witnesses

Robert Bumpass; William Fowler; Grace Fowler; Joanna Person

Reading note: Given name printed JOSEPH (or JONES?). Richard explicitly called son; other children not assigned sex.

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 191.
• 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).