Will of James Walker

James Walker named his wife and eight children from two marriages and appointed James Walker sole executor.

Kind of paper

Will

Testator

James Walker (printed JAMES WALKER)

Dated

29 December 1791

Proved

February 1792 court

Family named

Elizabeth (Wife); Ann Cimbol (my five children that I had by my first wife); Sanders Walker (my five children that I had by my first wife); Lydia Wright (my five children that I had by my first wife); Jeremiah Walker (my five children that I had by my first wife); William Walker (my five children that I had by my first wife); Sarah Colbert (my three children that I had by my second wife); Elizabeth Horton (my three children that I had by my second wife); James Walker (my three children that I had by my second wife)

Executor

James Walker

Witnesses

Thomas Latta; Samuel Garrard

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 B, page 229.
• 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).