Will of James (x) Tinnen

James Tinnen named his wife and other beneficiaries and appointed his wife and John Thompson Miller executors.

Kind of paper

Will

Testator

James (x) Tinnen (printed JAMES (x) TINNEN)

Dated

6 April 1773

Proved

May 1798 court

In the court minutes

• Suit, 31 May 1798

Family named

Elizabeth (wife)

Also left something

Alexander (son of John Tinnen); Robert (Cearns Tinnen’s son); Robert (Robert Tinnen’s son); Cearns (his brother); James Tinnen (the son of Robert Tinnen); Sarah Johnston

Executors

Elizabeth (wife); John Thompson Miller

Witnesses

John Reading; Arch’d Campbell; William Campbell

Also named

John Tinnen (father of Alexander); Cearns Tinnen (father of Robert); Robert Tinnen (father)

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 C, page 114.
• 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 80002, “Record of Wills, 1794–1822, Vols. C, D” (State Archives film).