Orange County Indexed
Will of James Carson
Will Book D, page 219 · dated 5 September 1807 · proved February 1808
James Carson left his estate to Mary for life, named son Robert, and appointed Mary and William Clark executors.
- Kind of paper
- Will
- Testator
- James Carson (printed JAMES CARSON)
- Dated
- 5 September 1807
- Proved
- February 1808 court
- Family named
- Mary (wife); Robert Carson (son)
- Executors
- Mary (wife); William Clark
- Witness
- Jesse Clark
- Land
- plantation and land that now belongs to John McDade
- Also named
- John McDade
Reading note: Probate term questioned on page.
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 219.
- Abstract: Ruth Herndon Shields, Abstracts of Wills Recorded in Orange County, North Carolina, 1800–1850 (1958), page 35.
- 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).
