Orange County Indexed
Will of Jehu Whitted
Will Book D, page 136 · dated 13 March 1804 · proved May 1804
Jehu Whitted provided for wife Susanna, daughter Anna, and relatives; he funded Fanny’s schooling and emancipation, appointing family members and William Harwood executors.
- Kind of paper
- Will
- Testator
- Jehu Whitted (printed JEHU WHITTED)
- Dated
- 13 March 1804
- Proved
- May 1804 court
- Family named
- Susanna (wife); Anna (daughter); Wm. Whitted (his father); Levi (brother); Wm. Whitted Jr. (brother); Mary Bird (sister); Hannah Harris (sister); Elizabeth Thompson (sister); Susannah Thompson (sister)
- Also left something
- Samuel Bigeloe
- Executors
- Wm. Whitted (father); Levi (brother); Wm. Whitted Jr. (brother); William Harwood
- Trustees
- Wm. Whitted (his father); Wm. Whitted Jr. (brother)
- Witnesses
- Will I ? Cain; Gavin Alves
- Enslaved people named
- Fanny (freed by this paper)
- In the records of enslaved people
- Land
- tract of land adjoining William Pickett, Eli Hill and others on Hill’s Creek being part of the land that Wm. Courtney died possessed of; One house and part of lot #6 in the town of Hillsborough now occupied by James Child; lands in the Western Country
- Money and goods
- £100 in trust for Fanny; 6 months schooling
- Also named
- William Pickett (land adjoining); Eli Hill (land adjoining); Wm. Courtney (died possessed of land); James Child (occupies house and lot #6)
Reading note: Continues PDF24. Will I ? Cain uncertain as printed; Fanny’s emancipation timing unspecified. Names listed with shared surnames were not expanded.
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 136.
- Abstract: Ruth Herndon Shields, Abstracts of Wills Recorded in Orange County, North Carolina, 1800–1850 (1958), page 21.
- 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).
