Orange County Indexed
Will of Edmund (x) Gilliam
Will Book D, page 489 · dated 11 August 1810 · proved August 1816
Edmund Gilliam named Sarah and children, assigned Haw River lands to sons, and appointed Edmund Gilliam executor.
- Kind of paper
- Will
- Testator
- Edmund (x) Gilliam (printed EDMUND (x) GILLIAM)
- Dated
- 11 August 1810
- Proved
- August 1816 court
- In the court minutes
- Family named
- Sarah (wife); Edmund Gilliam (son); Charles (son); Burwell (son); David (son); Sarah Hurbin (?) (daughter); Susannah Smothers (daughter); Mary Bracken (daughter); Elizabeth Stalcop (daughter)
- Executor
- Edmund Gilliam (son)
- Witnesses
- Thomas Bradford Jun’r; David Bradford Sr.
- Land
- land on South-west side of Haw Riv.; land on North-east side of Haw River
Reading note: Sarah Hurbin (?) 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 489.
- Abstract: Ruth Herndon Shields, Abstracts of Wills Recorded in Orange County, North Carolina, 1800–1850 (1958), page 73.
- 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).
