Orange County Indexed
Will of James Watson
Will Book D, page 49 · dated 2 July 1801 · proved August 1801
James Watson named his wife, six children and grandson, devised a plantation, and appointed son James sole executor.
- Kind of paper
- Will
- Testator
- James Watson (printed JAMES WATSON)
- Dated
- 2 July 1801
- Proved
- August 1801 court
- In the court minutes
- Family named
- Rosanna (wife); John (son); James (son); David (son); Jonathan (son); James Watson (son); Peggy (daughter); Elizabeth (daughter); James (grandson, son of James)
- Executor
- James Watson (son)
- Witnesses
- James Moore; John Moore
- Land
- plantation I purchased of Henry Moore
- Also named
- Henry Moore (previous land seller)
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 49.
- Abstract: Ruth Herndon Shields, Abstracts of Wills Recorded in Orange County, North Carolina, 1800–1850 (1958), page 6.
- 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).
