Division of an estate: Joshua Holt to Turner and others

Richard Cochran’s estate divided unnamed enslaved people between his widow Mrs. Turner and daughter Polly Dilhu Cockran; three people signed.

Kind of paper

Division of an estate

Made by

Joshua Holt

To

Turner (the widow of Richard Cochran; Mrs.); Polly Dilhu Cockran (his daughter)

Enslaved people not named

The enslaved people in the Estate of RICHARD COCHRAN

Also named

RICHARD COCHRAN (estate); Richard Cochran (deceased husband)

Reading note: J’se ? Hall uncertain as printed; signers recorded as makers, deceased Richard Cochran as estate subject. 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 141.
• Abstract: Ruth Herndon Shields, Abstracts of Wills Recorded in Orange County, North Carolina, 1800–1850 (1958), page 23.
• Microfilm at the Orange County Public Library, Wall Local History Collection: reel 80002, “Record of Wills, 1794–1822, Vols. C, D” (State Archives film).