Orange County Indexed
Will of Joseph Allison
Will Book B, page 70 · dated 7 April 1789
Joseph Allison named wife Elizabeth, two sons, four daughters and three sons-in-law; Elizabeth Allison, David and John Thompson were executors.
- Kind of paper
- Will
- Testator
- Joseph Allison (printed JOSEPH ALLISON)
- Dated
- 7 April 1789
- Proved
- Date not given
- Family named
- Elizabeth (Wife); David Allison (son); Joseph Allison (son); Margaret (daughter); Mary (daughter); Sarah (daughter); Nancy Allison (daughter); John Thompson (son-in-law); Asiriah Thompson (son-in-law); Samuel Woods (son-in-law)
- Executors
- Elizabeth Allison; David; John Thompson
- Witnesses
- John Wilson; Sarah (x) Gomage
- Land
- land on Duck River
- Places
- Duck River
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 70.
- 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).
