Orange County Indexed
Will of John Wilkerson
Will Book D, page 398 · dated 10 December 1813 · proved February 1814
John Wilkerson named wife Rebecca and minor daughter Rebecca, directing her education; James Lapslie and Daniel Wilkerson were executors.
- Kind of paper
- Will
- Testator
- John Wilkerson (printed JOHN WILKERSON)
- Dated
- 10 December 1813
- Proved
- February 1814 court
- Family named
- Rebecca (wife); Rebecca (daughter; under age, to be educated)
- Executors
- James Lapslie (trusty friends); Daniel Wilkerson (trusty friends)
- Witnesses
- Moses Guin; Thomas Wilson; Jas. D. Hughes
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 398.
- Abstract: Ruth Herndon Shields, Abstracts of Wills Recorded in Orange County, North Carolina, 1800–1850 (1958), page 58.
- 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).
