Orange County Indexed
Will of Benjamin Yeargin
Will Book D, page 338 · dated 18 May 1811 · proved May 1812
Benjamin Yeargin left Wilkes County land to Sarah and Mark, named other children, and appointed Sarah, James Forsythe and Bartlett Yeargin executors.
- Kind of paper
- Will
- Testator
- Benjamin Yeargin (printed BENJAMIN YEARGIN)
- Dated
- 18 May 1811
- Proved
- May 1812 court
- Family named
- Sarah Yeargin (wife); Sarah (wife); Mark M. Yeargin (son); Charlotte H. Young (daughter); Harriett Forsythe (three of my children); Bartlett Yeargin (three of my children)
- Executors
- Sarah (wife); James Forsythe; Bartlett Yeargin
- Witness
- David Strain
- Land
- 500 acres in Wilkes County on Cub Creek, on S.Side of Yadkin River, and near the Court House, Wilkesborough; 700 acres in Wilkes on Mulberry Creek
- Places
- Wilkes County; Cub Creek; S.Side of Yadkin River; Court House; Wilkesborough; Mulberry Creek
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 338.
- Abstract: Ruth Herndon Shields, Abstracts of Wills Recorded in Orange County, North Carolina, 1800–1850 (1958), page 50.
- 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).
