Will of Only (x) Owens

Only Owens named Sarah and eight children, gave small cash legacies, and left the estate balance to Thomas Owens.

Kind of paper

Will

Testator

Only (x) Owens (printed ONLY (x) OWENS)

Dated

21 November 1809

Proved

February 1810 court

Family named

Sarah (wife); Belitha Owens (son); Samuel (son); John Owens (son); Thomas Owens (son); Nancy Jenkins (daughter); Elizabeth Lingo (daughter); Lear Pettigrew (daughter); Lavinia Pettigrew (daughter)

Executors

John Wilbon (trusty friends); John Jenkins (trusty friends)

Witnesses

Wm. Meadows; Charles Jenkins

Money and goods

5 shillings each

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 257–258.
• Abstract: Ruth Herndon Shields, Abstracts of Wills Recorded in Orange County, North Carolina, 1800–1850 (1958), page 40.
• 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).