Orange County Indexed
Will of Robert Berry
Will Book D, page 408 · dated 16 April 1812 · proved August 1814
Robert Berry provided for Elizabeth and descendants, directed Henry to care for Isaac, and left an unnamed enslaved girl to John’s heirs.
- Kind of paper
- Will
- Testator
- Robert Berry (printed ROBERT BERRY)
- Dated
- 16 April 1812
- Proved
- August 1814 court
- Family named
- Elizabeth (wife); Robert Berry (son); Joshua Berry (son); Thomas Berry (son); Henry Berry (son); David Berry (son); William Berry (son); Isaac Berry (son; not of sound mind, Henry care for him); John Berry (son; deceased); Elizabeth Berry (daughter); Mary Kemp (daughter; deceased); Mary (her daughter)
- Executor
- Henry Berry (son)
- Witnesses
- J. Rountree; Wm. R. Robinson
- Enslaved people not named
- One enslaved girl
- Money and goods
- one pound
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 408.
- Abstract: Ruth Herndon Shields, Abstracts of Wills Recorded in Orange County, North Carolina, 1800–1850 (1958), page 60.
- 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).
