Will of Sterling Harris

Sterling Harris left land and unnamed enslaved people to Hannah and named daughter Charlotte Street; Hannah and friends were executors.

Kind of paper

Will

Testator

Sterling Harris (printed STERLING HARRIS)

Dated

14 September 1818

Proved

August 1813 court

A second reading

As the abstract prints them, the will was proved before it was dated, so one of the dates is wrong. Check the will book to settle it.

Family named

Hannah (wife); Charlotte Street (daughter); John Street (husband of Charlotte Street; of Hillsborough)

Executors

Hannah (wife); Levi Whitted (trusty friends); James Phillips (trusty friends); William Kirkland (trusty friends)

Witnesses

John Young; J. Taylor; Theopilus Thompson

Enslaved people not named

Enslaved people

Land

tract whereon I now live; lot in Hillsborough

Places

Hillsborough

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 387.
• Abstract: Ruth Herndon Shields, Abstracts of Wills Recorded in Orange County, North Carolina, 1800–1850 (1958), page 57.
• 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).