Orange County Indexed
Will of William Whitted, Sr.
Will Book D, page 468 · dated 24 March 1814 · proved February 1816
William Whitted named children and grandsons, left land, freed Dick, whom he held enslaved, and appointed sons William and Levi executors.
- Kind of paper
- Will
- Testator
- William Whitted, Sr. (printed WILLIAM WHITTED, SR.)
- Dated
- 24 March 1814
- Proved
- February 1816 court
- Family named
- William Whitted (son); Levi Whitted (son); William (son); Levi (son); Mary Bird (daughter); Elizabeth Holden (daughter); Susannah Thompson (daughter); Hannah Harris (daughter; she has but one child); Samuel Bigelow (grandson); William Whitted (grandson, son of Levi)
- Executors
- William (son); Levi (son)
- Witnesses
- Thomas Flint; Henry Neal
- Enslaved people named
- Dick (freed by this paper)
- In the records of enslaved people
- Dick (this paper)
- Land
- land joining Isaac Holden’s Mill Tract
- Also named
- Isaac Holden (Mill Tract owner)
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 468.
- 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).
