Will of Asey (x) Brown

Asey Brown named Leonard Sears and mother Susannah Castlebury and mentioned unnamed siblings; David George and Sampson Moore were executors.

Kind of paper

Will

Testator

Asey (x) Brown (printed ASEY (x) BROWN)

Dated

24 September 1814

Proved

August 1814 court

A second reading

As the abstract prints them, the will was proved before it was dated, so one of the dates is wrong. Mark Chilton’s index of the will books gives the probate as August 1815. Check the will book to settle it.

Family named

Susannah Castlebury (my mother)

Also left something

Leonard Sears

Executors

David George (friends); Sampson Moore (friends)

Witnesses

John Riggins; Gilly (x) Henderson

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 439.
• Abstract: Ruth Herndon Shields, Abstracts of Wills Recorded in Orange County, North Carolina, 1800–1850 (1958), page 64.
• 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).