Orange County Indexed
Will of James (x) Harris
Will Book A, page 337 · dated 26 August 1785 · proved November 1785
James Harris named wife Hannah, five daughters and three sons, devised river lands, and appointed Richard, Edward Harris and Richard Bennehan executors.
- Kind of paper
- Will
- Testator
- James (x) Harris (printed JAMES (x) HARRIS)
- Dated
- 26 August 1785
- Proved
- November 1785 court
- A second reading
- Mark Chilton’s index of the will books gives the date as 6 August 1785. Check the will book to settle it.
- In the court minutes
- Family named
- Hannah (wife); Richmond (son); James (son); John (son); Richard (son); Mary Harris (daughter); Elizabeth Harris (daughter); Sarah Harris (daughter); Susannah Harris (daughter); Martha Hargrove (daughter); Henry Hargrove (wife of)
- Executors
- Richard (son); Edward Harris (friends); Richard Bennehan (friends)
- Witnesses
- Susannah (x) Glen; Wm (x) Pettigrew; Harris Pettigrew
- Deeds that cite this paper
- Deed Book 5, page 75; Deed Book 5, page 116; Deed Book 6, page 94
- Land
- lands and plantation on Flat River and Eno
- Places
- Flat River; Eno
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 337.
- 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).
