Orange County Indexed
Will of Stwphwn Willson
Will Book D, page 104 · dated 26 February 1803 · proved August 1803
Stwphwn Willson provided for wife Sarah, son John, daughter Sarah, William Dollar, and William Guess; William Cain and wife Sarah were executors.
- Kind of paper
- Will
- Testator
- Stwphwn Willson (printed STWPHWN WILLSON)
- Dated
- 26 February 1803
- Proved
- August 1803 court
- Family named
- Sarah (wife); John (son); Sarah (daughter)
- Also left something
- William Dollar; William Guess
- Executors
- William Cain; Sarah (my loving wife)
- Witnesses
- Thomas Latta; John Latta, Jr.
- Land
- land joining Mr. Tilley’s
- Money and goods
- wife Sarah 1/3 of estate; William Dollar one English Crown; William Guess ditto
- Also named
- Tilley (Mr.; land joining)
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 104.
- 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).
