Orange County Indexed
Will of Mathais Wilson
Will Book D, page 324 · dated 20 December 1811 · proved February 1812
Mathais Wilson left a plantation to Rachel and schooling money to nephew William, and named friend George Brown.
- Kind of paper
- Will
- Testator
- Mathais Wilson (printed MATHAIS WILSON)
- Dated
- 20 December 1811
- Proved
- February 1812 court
- Family named
- Rachel Wilson (sister); Edward Wilson (brother); Rachel (sister); William Wilson (brother); William Wilson (son of my brother Edward Wilson)
- Also left something
- George Brown (friend)
- Executors
- Rachel (sister); William Wilson (brother)
- Witnesses
- Thomas Gill; David Mebane
- Land
- plantation
- Money and goods
- $20 to help with his schooling
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 324.
- Abstract: Ruth Herndon Shields, Abstracts of Wills Recorded in Orange County, North Carolina, 1800–1850 (1958), page 48.
- 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).
