Orange County Indexed
Will of Jacob Beason
Will Book D, page 15 · dated 4 March 1800 · proved August 1800
Jacob Beason named six children and appointed his brother and brother-in-law executors.
- Kind of paper
- Will
- Testator
- Jacob Beason (printed JACOB BEASON)
- Dated
- 4 March 1800
- Proved
- August 1800 court
- In the court minutes
- Family named
- John (son); Frederick (son); Joseph (son); Margaret (daughter); Hannah (daughter); Catherine (daughter); Henry Beason (brother); Aron Sharpe (brother-in-law)
- Executors
- Henry Beason (brother); Aron Sharpe (brother-in-law)
- Witnesses
- W. Mebane; Richard Bull; Thomas Dixon
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 15.
- Abstract: Ruth Herndon Shields, Abstracts of Wills Recorded 1752 through 1800 in Orange County, North Carolina, Will Books A, B and C (Davie Poplar Chapter NSDAR, revised edition 1966).
- 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).
