Will of Jinnet Tate

Jinnet Tate named children and other beneficiaries, arranged care for two girls, and appointed son James Tate and Samuel Nelson executors.

Kind of paper

Will

Testator

Jinnet Tate (printed JINNET TATE)

Dated

As printed: “Not dated”

Proved

February 1786 court

Family named

James (son); George (son); James Tate (son); Margaret (daughter); Elizabeth (daughter); Beturo (daughter); Polly (daughter); Agnes (daughter); Jinnet (daughter; a minor); Lettice (daughter)

Also left something

David (his son); Jinnet (his daughter)

Executors

James Tate (son); Samuel Nelson

Guardian

Samuel Nelson (requested to take Jinet and Margaret to raise)

Witnesses

Thomas Mulhollan; Jas. Mebane; Edward Willson

Money and goods

a black mare I had of Andrew Mitchell; The sum betwixt Samuel Nelson and me; the overplus I paid to John Mitchell above his wife’s dower

Also named

Samuel Nelson; Andrew Mitchell; John Mitchell; Jinnet (requested Samuel Nelson to raise)

Reading note: Recording date questioned. Jinnet appears as daughter of testator and as John Mitchell’s daughter; identities not merged. Unnamed daughters and Andrew Mitchell’s unnamed oldest son omitted as persons.

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 359.
• 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).