Orange County Indexed
Will of Jonathan (x) Jenkins
Will Book D, page 150 · dated 4 May 1805 · proved May 1805
Jonathan Jenkins named wife Ann and appointed his wife and friend John Wilbourn executors.
- Kind of paper
- Will
- Testator
- Jonathan (x) Jenkins (printed JONATHAN (x) JENKINS)
- Dated
- 4 May 1805
- Proved
- May 1805 court
- Family named
- Ann (wife)
- Executor
- John Wilbourn (trusty friend)
- Witnesses
- Ownley ? (x) Owen; Samuel (x) Owen
- In the paper’s words
- “sick and very weak”
Reading note: Ownley ? (x) Owen uncertain as printed. 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 150.
- Abstract: Ruth Herndon Shields, Abstracts of Wills Recorded in Orange County, North Carolina, 1800–1850 (1958), page 24.
- 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).
