Orange County Indexed
Will of James (x) Carrington
Will Book D, page 485 · dated 13 May 1816 · proved May 1816
James Carrington gave small cash legacies to children and named first wife Jemima and second wife Ankey; James Latta was sole executor.
- Kind of paper
- Will
- Testator
- James (x) Carrington (printed JAMES (x) CARRINGTON)
- Dated
- 13 May 1816
- Proved
- May 1816 court
- In the court minutes
- Family named
- Ankey (wife); Jemima (my first wife); John (son; children of my first wife Jemima); William (son; children of my first wife Jemima); James (son); Elizabeth (daughter; children of my first wife Jemima); Mary (daughter)
- Executor
- James Latta
- Witness
- Thomas Latta, Sen’r
- Money and goods
- $1 each
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 485.
- Abstract: Ruth Herndon Shields, Abstracts of Wills Recorded in Orange County, North Carolina, 1800–1850 (1958), page 72.
- 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).
