Orange County Indexed
Will of James Wilkinson
Will Book D, page 410 · dated 23 March 1807 · proved August 1814
James Wilkinson provided plantation and goods to children and named Caty and son Joseph Ray executors.
- Kind of paper
- Will
- Testator
- James Wilkinson (printed JAMES WILKINSON)
- Dated
- 23 March 1807
- Proved
- August 1814 court
- A second reading
- Mark Chilton’s index of the will books gives the date as 25 March 1807. Check the will book to settle it.
- Family named
- Caty Wilkinson (wife); William Wilkinson (son); John Wilkinson (son); James Wilkinson (son); Joseph Ray (my son); Mary Wilkinson (daughter); An Wilkinson (daughter); Susannah Ray (daughter)
- Executors
- Caty Wilkinson (my wife); Joseph Ray (my son)
- Witnesses
- John Ray; James Clarke
- Land
- plantation
- Money and goods
- bed & furniture, mare & colt, etc; 5 shillings each
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 410.
- 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).
