Will of William Wolf

William Wolf left a plantation to Ann, named children, and ordered an unnamed enslaved man freed after earning his purchase price.

Kind of paper

Will

Testator

William Wolf (printed WILLIAM WOLF)

Dated

19 June 1808

Proved

November 1808 court

In the court minutes

• Administration of an estate, May 1809 term

Family named

Peter (son); John (son); William (son; he is youngest); Barbara (daughter); Mary (daughter)

Also left something

Ann (relationship not stated, wife ?)

Witnesses

Benjamin Jackson; Joseph Clendennin

Enslaved people not named

His enslaved man

Land

plantation

Reading note: Ann relationship is not stated; compiler questions whether she was wife.

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 237.
• Abstract: Ruth Herndon Shields, Abstracts of Wills Recorded in Orange County, North Carolina, 1800–1850 (1958), page 38.
• 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).