Orange County Indexed
Will of John Wilson
Will Book D, page 362 · dated 4 November 1812
John Wilson named Nancy and unnamed children and appointed James Walker and Herbert Sims executors.
- Kind of paper
- Will
- Testator
- John Wilson (printed JOHN WILSON)
- Dated
- 4 November 1812
- Proved
- Date not given
- Family named
- Nancy (wife)
- Executors
- James Walker (trusty friends); Herbert Sims (trusty friends)
- Witnesses
- James Webb; Thos. Latta
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 362.
- Abstract: Ruth Herndon Shields, Abstracts of Wills Recorded in Orange County, North Carolina, 1800–1850 (1958), page 53.
- 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).
