Orange County Indexed
Will of John Allison
Will Book C, page 75 · dated 8 December 1795 · proved February 1796
John Allison named his wife and eleven children, devised land, and appointed his wife and son Joseph executors.
- Kind of paper
- Will
- Testator
- John Allison (printed JOHN ALLISON)
- Dated
- 8 December 1795
- Proved
- February 1796 court
- Family named
- Martha (wife); Joseph Allison (son); James Allison (son); John Allison (son); Charles Allison (son); Hamilton Allison (son); Jennet (daughter); Mary (daughter); Martha (daughter); Grisel Allison (daughter); Agnes Allison (daughter); Elizabeth Allison (daughter); James Ray (husband of daughter); Thomas Curtis (husband of daughter); Samuel Garat (husband of daughter)
- Executors
- Martha (wife); Joseph Allison (son)
- Witnesses
- John Ray; Andrew McBroom
- Land
- 240 acres of the entry joining David Allison’s tract
- Money and goods
- 20 shillings
- Also named
- David Allison (adjoining landowner)
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 75.
- 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).
