Will of Abner Tapp

Abner Tapp named Frances, son Richard and daughters; no executor or witnesses were named.

Kind of paper

Will

Testator

Abner Tapp (printed ABNER TAPP)

Dated

20 August 1810

Proved

November 1810 court

In the court minutes

• Estate account, 29 November 1810
• Administration of an estate, 29 November 1810

Family named

Frances (wife); Richard Tapp (son); Elizabeth (four daughters); Susannah (four daughters); Elethe (four daughters)

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 272.
• Abstract: Ruth Herndon Shields, Abstracts of Wills Recorded in Orange County, North Carolina, 1800–1850 (1958), page 42.
• 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).