Orange County Indexed
Will of John Graham
Will Book D, page 259 · dated 10 October 1809 · proved February 1810
John Graham provided plantation and goods for Mary and children, including schooling for minor sons and an unnamed enslaved man for Ann Hall.
- Kind of paper
- Will
- Testator
- John Graham (printed JOHN GRAHAM)
- Dated
- 10 October 1809
- Proved
- February 1810 court
- Family named
- Mary (wife); James (three sons; all under age, to be schooled); George (three sons; all under age, to be schooled); Thomas Graham (three sons; all under age, to be schooled); John Graham (son); Robert Graham (son); Jenny Walker (daughter); Ann Hall (daughter); Fanny Walker (daughter); Elizabeth Graham (daughter); Mary Graham (daughter); Charity Graham (daughter)
- Executors
- Mary (wife); John Graham (son)
- Witnesses
- David Bradford; James (x) Tate
- Enslaved people not named
- 1 enslaved man
- Land
- plantation
- Money and goods
- $5; $25; a horse, cows, saddle, etc, 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, page 259.
- 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).
