Orange County Indexed
Will of Stephen Tatom
Will Book B, page 73 · dated 3 September 1788
Stephen Tatom named wife Mornin, three sons and seven daughters, devised Camp Creek lands, and appointed Towland Gooch and John Wilburn executors.
- Kind of paper
- Will
- Testator
- Stephen Tatom (printed STEPHEN TATOM)
- Dated
- 3 September 1788
- Proved
- Date not given
- A second reading
- Mark Chilton’s index of the will books gives the probate as May 1789. Check the will book to settle it.
- Family named
- Mornin (wife); Stephen (son); John (son); William (son); Sarah (daughter); Anna (daughter); Elizabeth (daughter); Francis (daughter); Tizia (daughter); Mary (daughter); Jemima (daughter)
- Executors
- Towland Gooch (trusty friends); John Wilburn (trusty friends)
- Witnesses
- Fowler Jones; William (x) Tatom
- Deeds that cite this paper
- Deed Book 6, page 193
- Land
- lands on Camp Creek
- Money and goods
- 1 shilling
- Places
- Camp Creek
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 73.
- 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).
