Will of Sackfield or Zackfield Brewer

Sackfield or Zackfield Brewer named children and descendants, left Cane Creek land to Elizabeth, and appointed sons as executors.

Kind of paper

Will

Testator

Sackfield or Zackfield Brewer (printed SACKFIELD or ZACKFIELD BREWER)

Dated

2 June 1810

Proved

August 1813 court

Family named

Thomas Brewer (son); Ezekiel Brewer (son); Ezekiel (son); Sackfield Brewer (son); Elizabeth (daughter); Elizabeth Brewer (my four surviving children); Rebecca Thompson (my four surviving children); Patsey Lindsey (granddaughter); Sarah Edwards (granddaughter); Mary Meachum (granddaughter); Sackfield (grandson, sons of Ezekiel); Henry Brewer (grandson, sons of Ezekiel); Patsey (granddaughter, daughters of Ezekiel); Polly Brewer (granddaughter, daughters of Ezekiel); Peter Brewer (my grandson); Peter Brewer (great-grandson, son of my grandson Peter Brewer)

Executors

Ezekiel (son); Sackfield Brewer (son)

Witnesses

A. Stanford; William Moore

Land

land on West side of Cane Creek joining Wm. Hopson

Places

Cane Creek

Also named

Wm. Hopson (adjoining owner)

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 384.
• Abstract: Ruth Herndon Shields, Abstracts of Wills Recorded in Orange County, North Carolina, 1800–1850 (1958), page 56.
• 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).