Will of James Crutchfield

James Crutchfield left his estate to Mary, land to James, an enslaved person conditionally to Benjamin, and other property to relatives.

Kind of paper

Will

Testator

James Crutchfield (printed JAMES CRUTCHFIELD)

Dated

19 November 1806

Proved

November 1807 court

Family named

Mary (wife); Benjamin Crutchfield (brother); John (brother); William (brother); Stephen ? (brother); Anderson (brother)

Also left something

James Crutchfield (under 21 years); Thomas; Stapleton; John Pitts

Executors

Mary (wife); Jacob Geer (Greer ?) (friend)

Witnesses

Thomas Bradshaw; Wm. Shaw

Enslaved people not named

An enslaved person

Land

my road tract 128 acres

Money and goods

wheat at John Crawford’s mill; All the property willed to her by John Steel

Also named

John Crawford; John Steel; Mathew Wilson

Reading note: Stephen ? and Jacob Geer (Greer ?) questioned; Thomas and Stapleton have no explicit relationship.

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 206.
• Abstract: Ruth Herndon Shields, Abstracts of Wills Recorded in Orange County, North Carolina, 1800–1850 (1958), page 33.
• 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).