Orange County Indexed
Will of Michael Robinson
Will Book D, page 184 · dated 8 July 1806 · proved February 1807
Michael Robinson provided for children, grandchildren, and other beneficiaries, distributing Tennessee land, money, and two unnamed enslaved people; friends were executors.
- Kind of paper
- Will
- Testator
- Michael Robinson (printed MICHAEL ROBINSON)
- Dated
- 8 July 1806
- Proved
- February 1807 court
- Family named
- William (son); David Robinson (son); Michael Robinson (son); James Robinson (son); Joseph Robinson (son); John Robinson (son); Charles Robinson (son); Catherine Moore (daughter); Mary Moore (daughter); Jinnett Ray (daughter; wife of James Ray); Martha Ray (daughter); Nancy Rountree (daughter); Margaret McCallister (my daughter; heirs); John Robinson (grandson; son of Michael by his first wife Jane Ray); Michael Robinson Moore (grandson); James Ray (husband of Jinnett Ray)
- Also left something
- James Robinson (son of Alexander Robinson deceased); Jane Anderson (daughter of Samuel Anderson)
- Executors
- Wm. Cooke (friends); Thomas Roundtree (friends); David Ray (friends)
- Witnesses
- James Whitfield; Nancy (x) Wilson
- Enslaved people not named
- David Robinson an enslaved person|Jane Anderson one enslaved child
- Land
- David Robinson 500 acres on Duck River; Joseph Robinson 500 acres on waters of Duck River in Tennessee, third part of tract1500 acres; John Robinson 500 acres on Duck River
- Money and goods
- William 20 shillings; David Robinson 20 shillings; James Robinson son of Alexander Robinson20 sh.; Catherine Moore5 shillings; James Robinson my large Bible; Mary Moore5 shillings; heirs of Margaret McCallister5 shillings; Michael Robinson Moore $20 for education
- Also named
- Alexander Robinson (deceased; father of James Robinson); Jane Ray (first wife of Michael); Samuel Anderson (father of Jane Anderson)
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 184.
- Abstract: Ruth Herndon Shields, Abstracts of Wills Recorded in Orange County, North Carolina, 1800–1850 (1958), page 30.
- 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).
