Will of Robert (x) Anderson

Robert Anderson allocated plantation and inherited acreage, named siblings and legatees, and appointed Wiley Shaw and James Lapslie executors.

Kind of paper

Will

Testator

Robert (x) Anderson (printed ROBERT (x) ANDERSON)

Dated

21 February 1816

Proved

February 1816 court

Family named

John Anderson (my father); Mary (sister); Phebe (sister); Ann Anderson (sister); Letty Clark (sister); John Anderson (brother); Stewart Anderson (brother)

Also left something

Augusta Anderson; William Anderson; John Clark; John N. Clark

Executors

Wiley Shaw (trusty friend; Esq.); James Lapslie (Major)

Witnesses

James McCluskey; Joseph Anderson; Alex. Anderson

Land

the plantation where William Anderson did live; 48 acres bequeathed to me Robert Anderson by my father John Anderson

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 458.
• Abstract: Ruth Herndon Shields, Abstracts of Wills Recorded in Orange County, North Carolina, 1800–1850 (1958), page 68.
• 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).