Will of William Mebane

William Mebane provided for wife Rebecca, brothers James and David, Robert Murdock, and supposed son William Brown Mebane, who received an unnamed enslaved person.

Kind of paper

Will

Testator

William Mebane (printed WILLIAM MEBANE)

Dated

24 March 1803

Proved

August 1803 court

In the court minutes

• Will proved, August 1803 term
• Administration of an estate, August 1803 term
• Estate account, August 1803 term
• Estate account, 30 November 1803

Family named

Rebecca (wife); William Brown Mebane (my supposed son); James (brother); David (brother); James Mebane (my brother); Benjamin Rainey (my father-in-law)

Also left something

Robert Murdock

Executors

James Mebane (my brother); Benjamin Rainey (my father-in-law)

Witnesses

James Hutcheson; Ross Hutcheson

Enslaved people not named

An enslaved person

Land

plantation after wife’s death

Money and goods

Rebecca 1/3 of estate; James 1/3 of estate; David 1/3 of estate; Robert Murdock large Bible

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 D, page 101.
• Abstract: Ruth Herndon Shields, Abstracts of Wills Recorded in Orange County, North Carolina, 1800–1850 (1958), page 16.
• 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).