Will of Jesse Nevill

Jesse Nevill named his wife and children, acknowledged earlier shares, and appointed sons Goodwin and Samuel Parke Nevill executors.

Kind of paper

Will

Testator

Jesse Nevill (printed JESSE NEVILL)

Dated

11 September 1809

Proved

May 1810 court

Family named

Elizabeth (wife); Samuel Parke Nevill (son); Goodman Nevill (son); Wiley Whitwell Nevill (son); Goodwin Nevill (son); Selah Nevill (daughter); Cynthia Aris ? Robertson (daughter); Goodwick Kirk (First children; have married off and gone from me); Elizabeth Barby (First children; have married off and gone from me); Solomon Nevill (First children; have married off and gone from me); Benjamin Nevill (First children; have married off and gone from me); Jesse Nevill Jr (First children; have married off and gone from me)

Executors

Goodwin Nevill (son); Samuel Parke Nevill (son)

Witnesses

Wm. Brewer; James Miles; Joshus Brewer

Reading note: Goodman and Goodwin variants preserved; Cynthia Aris ? Robertson questioned.

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 263.
• Abstract: Ruth Herndon Shields, Abstracts of Wills Recorded in Orange County, North Carolina, 1800–1850 (1958), page 41.
• 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).