Will of Elizabeth (x) Wyatt

Elizabeth Wyatt left unnamed enslaved people to three children and one dollar to son-in-law Benjamin Simpson; sons were executors.

Kind of paper

Will

Testator

Elizabeth (x) Wyatt (printed ELIZABETH (x) WYATT)

Dated

21 April 1815

Proved

February 1816 court

Family named

Joshua (son); Frederick Wyatt (son); Joshua Wyatt (my three children); Frederick Wyatt (my three children); Elizabeth Benson (my three children); Benjamin Simpson (my son-in-law)

Executors

Joshua (son); Frederick Wyatt (son)

Witnesses

Anderson King; David King

Enslaved people not named

All her enslaved people

Money and goods

$1

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 464.
• Abstract: Ruth Herndon Shields, Abstracts of Wills Recorded in Orange County, North Carolina, 1800–1850 (1958), page 69.
• 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).