Orange County Indexed
Will of Robert Nelson
Will Book B, page 90 · dated 17 March 1789 · proved May 1790
Robert Nelson left a plantation to sons James and Robert after his wife’s interest and a Randolph town lot to daughter Jean Scott.
- Kind of paper
- Will
- Testator
- Robert Nelson (printed ROBERT NELSON)
- Dated
- 17 March 1789
- Proved
- May 1790 court
- Family named
- Mary (wife); James (my two sons); Robert (my two sons); Jean Scott (daughter)
- Witnesses
- John Umstead; Peter Wrightman
- Land
- the plantation whereon I now live; one lot in the town of Randolph Courthouse in the County of Randolph
- Places
- town of Randolph Courthouse; County of Randolph
Reading note: Continuation appears twice on misplaced PDF75 and correctly sequenced PDF79; recorded once here. Wife benefits until sons arrive to ages 17 and 16, not stated current ages.
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 90.
- 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).
