Will of Matthew (x) Rippy

Matthew Rippy allocated land and unnamed enslaved people and ordered the estate balance sold for children and deceased Jinney Garrett’s children.

Kind of paper

Will

Testator

Matthew (x) Rippy (printed MATTHEW (x) RIPPY)

Dated

7 January 1817

Proved

May 1817 court

Family named

John (son); Edward (son); Joseph (son); Thomas (son); James (son); Jesse Rippy (son); John Rippy (son); Jinney Garrett (my daughter; now dead)

Executors

Samuel Scott (friend); John Rippy (son)

Witnesses

Samuel Scott; John McCrackin

Enslaved people not named

Several enslaved people

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 508.
• Abstract: Ruth Herndon Shields, Abstracts of Wills Recorded in Orange County, North Carolina, 1800–1850 (1958), page 77.
• 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).