Will of John Newlin

John Newlin left his plantation to Nathaniel Newlin and named other children and five grandchildren of deceased son Eli Newlin; no executor was named.

Kind of paper

Will

Testator

John Newlin (printed JOHN NEWLIN)

Dated

8 June 1805

Proved

August 1805 court

A second reading

Mark Chilton’s index of the will books gives the probate as November 1805. Check the will book to settle it.

Family named

Nathaniel Newlin (son); Eli Newlin (my son; deceased); Jas Newlin (my other children); John Newlin (my other children); Hannah Holladay (my other children); Mary Hadley (my other children); Joshua (five grandchildren of my son Eli Newlin deceased); John Newlin (five grandchildren of my son Eli Newlin deceased); Ruth Vestal (five grandchildren of my son Eli Newlin deceased); Edith (five grandchildren of my son Eli Newlin deceased); Mary Newlin (five grandchildren of my son Eli Newlin deceased)

Witnesses

John Carter; Anne Carter; Hannah Carter

Land

the plantation I now live on

Money and goods

Five grandchildren of my son Eli Newlin deceased five pounds

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 162.
• Abstract: Ruth Herndon Shields, Abstracts of Wills Recorded in Orange County, North Carolina, 1800–1850 (1958), page 26.
• 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).