Will of James Baldridge

James Baldridge named wife Martha, children, stepdaughter Elizabeth Moore, land divisions, and executors Samuel Turrentine, David White, James H. Bowman, and Malcolm Baldridge.

Kind of paper

Will

Testator

James Baldridge (printed JAMES BALDRIDGE)

Dated

4 November 1802

Proved

August 1803 court

In the court minutes

• Administration of an estate, February 1803 term
• Estate account, May 1803 term

Family named

Martha (wife); Malcolm (son); Josiah Walker Baldridge (son); Stephen White Baldridge (son); Stephen W. (my three sons); Josiah Walker (my three sons); Martha White Baldridge (youngest daughter); Elizabeth (daughter; all named Baldridge); Mary (daughter; all named Baldridge); Susanna (daughter; all named Baldridge); Charity (daughter; all named Baldridge); Jean (daughter; all named Baldridge); Margaret (daughter; all named Baldridge); Elizabeth Moore (step-daughter)

Also left something

Ann Baldridge

Executors

Samuel Turrentine (trusty friends); David White (trusty friends); James H. Bowman (trusty friends); Malcolm Baldridge (trusty friends)

Witnesses

David Allison; Joseph Hughes

Land

McDade plantation and lots in Hillsborough; 940 acres of land upon Gasper River in the Western Country

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 107.
• Abstract: Ruth Herndon Shields, Abstracts of Wills Recorded in Orange County, North Carolina, 1800–1850 (1958), page 17.
• 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).