Will of Michael Shofner

Michael Shofner named sons and daughter Magdalane; sons-in-law Jacob Antony and Mathea Fogleman were executors.

Kind of paper

Will

Testator

Michael Shofner (printed MICHAEL SHOFNER)

Dated

27 September 1810

Proved

Date not given

Family named

Peter Shofner (youngest son); Michael Shofner (son); Magdalane (daughter); Jacob Antony (son-in-law); Mathea (?) Fogleman (son-in-law)

Executors

Jacob Antony (son-in-law); Mathea (?) Fogleman (son-in-law)

Witness

Henry Cook, Jr.

Reading note: No probate date supplied; Mathea (?) Fogleman 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 342.
• Abstract: Ruth Herndon Shields, Abstracts of Wills Recorded in Orange County, North Carolina, 1800–1850 (1958), page 51.
• 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).