Will of Jean (x) Bowling

Jean Bowling named four sons, three daughters and Nancy Flintom as a beneficiary.

Kind of paper

Will

Testator

Jean (x) Bowling (printed JEAN (x) BOWLING)

Dated

19 January 1789

Proved

Date not given

Family named

Archibald (son); Abraham (son); Alexander (son); Andrew Bowling (son); Isabel Butler (daughter); Susannah Boswell (daughter); Elizabeth Bowling (daughter); John Butler (wife of)

Also left something

Nancy Flintom (relationship not stated)

Witnesses

Sam'l Wray; William Nunn; Joseph Hart

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 57.
• 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).