Will of William (x) Picket

William Picket provided for his wife, children and grandchildren, left land interests, and appointed friends as executors.

Kind of paper

Will

Testator

William (x) Picket (printed WILLIAM (x) PICKET)

Dated

9 May 1807

Proved

May 1807 court

Family named

Elizabeth (wife); Jesse Picket (son); Mark Picket (son); Thomas Picket (son); Elizabeth Rigsby (daughter); Peggy Perry (daughter); India Pickett (daughter of my son Jesse Picket); Tempy (granddaughter, daughters of Jesse Rigsby); Edy Rigsby (granddaughter, daughters of Jesse Rigsby); Arche ? Rigsby (grandson); Jesse Rigsby (father of granddaughters)

Executors

Man Patterson (worthy friends); Wm. Rhodes Trice (worthy friends)

Witnesses

C. P. Patterson; William Rhodes

Land

the land and plantation where they live during their lives; land where he now lives, formerly the property of David Grisham

Also named

David Grisham (former property owner)

Reading note: Arche ? Rigsby has a printed question mark; grouped granddaughters recorded without adding surname.

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, pages 192–4.
• Abstract: Ruth Herndon Shields, Abstracts of Wills Recorded in Orange County, North Carolina, 1800–1850 (1958), page 31.
• 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).