Orange County Indexed
Will of Peter (x) Jeffreys
Will Book D, page 244 · dated 25 November 1808 · proved February 1809
Peter Jeffreys named his wife Lucy, directed two unnamed enslaved people emancipated, and appointed John Young executor.
- Kind of paper
- Will
- Testator
- Peter (x) Jeffreys (printed PETER (x) JEFFREYS)
- Dated
- 25 November 1808
- Proved
- February 1809 court
- Family named
- Lucy (wife)
- Executor
- John Young (of the town of Hillsborough)
- Witnesses
- Robert Tinnen; James Lapslie
- Enslaved people not named
- Two enslaved people
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 244.
- 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).
