Orange County Indexed
Will of Robert Sr Morrison
Will Book D, pages 229–231 · dated 12 February 1808 · proved May 1808
Robert Morrison allocated land to sons and money to daughters and directed acreage sold; Robert and James Newlin were executors.
- Kind of paper
- Will
- Testator
- Robert Sr Morrison (printed ROBERT SR MORRISON)
- Dated
- 12 February 1808
- Proved
- May 1808 court
- Family named
- James (son); William (son); Robert (son); Jean (my daughters); Catherine (my daughters); Mary (my daughters); Ruth (my daughters); Hannah (my daughters); Deborah (my daughters)
- Executors
- Robert (son); James Newlin
- Witnesses
- Wm. Carter; Danell Towell; Duncan Darroch
- Land
- all lands in Randolph County; land where I now live and a piece of land I purchased from Wm. Carter adjoining the said place; land whereon my son William now lives; 207 acres bought from Isaac Reynolds
- Money and goods
- Hannah and Deborah $80 each
- Places
- Randolph County
- Also named
- Wm. Carter (former land owner); Isaac Reynolds (former land owner)
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 229–231.
- Abstract: Ruth Herndon Shields, Abstracts of Wills Recorded in Orange County, North Carolina, 1800–1850 (1958), page 36.
- 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).
