Will of Ephriam Mitchell

Ephriam Mitchell named an unnamed wife, six sons, daughter Patsey, and children Noah and Happey; no executor was named.

Kind of paper

Will

Testator

Ephriam Mitchell (printed EPHRIAM MITCHELL)

Dated

19 November 1806

Proved

November 1806 court

In the court minutes

• Administration of an estate, 28 November 1806

Family named

Henry (six of my sons); David (six of my sons); Randall ? (six of my sons); James (six of my sons); Efram (six of my sons); William (six of my sons); Patsey (daughter); Noah (child); Happey ? (child)

Witnesses

Stephen Robart; Nancy (x) Robart

Money and goods

Noah and Happey ? $15 each

Reading note: Writing is very bad; Randall ? and Happey ? 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 181.
• 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).