Orange County Indexed
Will of Joseph Wells, Senior
Will Book D, page 140 · dated 20 February 1804 · proved November 1804
Joseph Wells Senior named sons, daughters, Elizabeth Wells, and an unnamed granddaughter; sons Isaac and William Wells were executors.
- Kind of paper
- Will
- Testator
- Joseph Wells, Senior (printed JOSEPH WELLS, Senior)
- Dated
- 20 February 1804
- Proved
- November 1804 court
- In the court minutes
- Family named
- William Wells (son); John (son); Joseph (son); Nathan (son); Isaac Wells (son); Jesse Wells (deceased; father of unnamed granddaughter); Isaac (son); Margrate Gifford (daughter); Charity McDaniel (daughter); Mary A. Jamison ? (daughter); Rachel Underwood (daughter)
- Also left something
- Elizabeth Wells
- Executors
- Isaac (son); William Wells (son)
- Witnesses
- Wm. Pike; John Pike Jr.; John Marshill
- Land
- land on both sides of Cane Creek
- Money and goods
- John, Joseph, Nathan, Isaac Wells $7 each; Margrate Gifford, Charity McDaniel $7 each; Mary A. Jamison ?, Rachel Underwood $7 each
Reading note: Continues PDF25. Mary A. Jamison ? uncertain; granddaughter unnamed, daughter of Jesse Wells deceased. Shared surnames 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 140.
- Abstract: Ruth Herndon Shields, Abstracts of Wills Recorded in Orange County, North Carolina, 1800–1850 (1958), page 22.
- 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).
