Orange County Indexed
Will of Jacob Senior Allen
Will Book D, page 178 · dated 13 January 1806 · proved November 1806
Jacob Senior Allen named sons Jacob and William and five daughters; son-in-law James Latta and son Jacob Allen were executors.
- Kind of paper
- Will
- Testator
- Jacob Senior Allen (printed JACOB SENIOR ALLEN)
- Dated
- 13 January 1806
- Proved
- November 1806 court
- In the court minutes
- Family named
- Jacob Allen (son); William Allen (son); Sally Allen (daughter); Betsey Allen (daughter); Hannah Allen (daughter); Nancy Latta (daughter); Syntha Scarlett (daughter); James Latta (son-in-law)
- Executors
- James Latta (son-in-law); Jacob Allen (son)
- Witnesses
- Wm. Cain Sr.; John Kelly Sr.; Cuthburt (x) Burton
- Land
- Jacob Allen land on South side of Eno River; William Allen land on North side of Eno
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 178.
- Abstract: Ruth Herndon Shields, Abstracts of Wills Recorded in Orange County, North Carolina, 1800–1850 (1958), page 29.
- 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).
