Orange County Indexed
Will of Vinson (x) Roberts
Will Book D, page 462 · dated 10 January 1816 · proved February 1816
Vinson Roberts named Beersheba, sons, daughters and stepdaughter Nancy; Thomas Compton and James Boling were executors.
- Kind of paper
- Will
- Testator
- Vinson (x) Roberts (printed VINSON (x) ROBERTS)
- Dated
- 10 January 1816
- Proved
- February 1816 court
- Family named
- Beersheba (wife; is pregnant ?); James (son); Morgan (son); George (son); Zephaniah (son); Calvin Henderson Roberts (son); Lidda (daughter); Clary (daughter); Jemima (daughter); Peggy (daughter); Mary (daughter); Rebeckah (daughter); Nancy (my wife’s daughter)
- Executors
- Thomas Compton; James Boling
- Witnesses
- John Creswell; Jno. Landers; Erasmus (x) Compton
Reading note: Wife possibly pregnant as questioned on page.
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 462.
- 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).
