Orange County Indexed
Will of William McPherson
Will Book D, page 517 · dated 29 March 1813 · proved February 1818
William McPherson named Phebe, children and spouses and grandson William; Daniel and John McPherson were executors.
- Kind of paper
- Will
- Testator
- William McPherson (printed WILLIAM McPHERSON)
- Dated
- 29 March 1813
- Proved
- February 1818 court
- In the court minutes
- Family named
- Phebe (wife); Enoch (son); Wm. McPherson (my grandson, ye son of Enoch); Paray (Panay ?) (his wife); Thomas (my children and spouses); Mary Braxton (my children and spouses); Othail (Othneil ?) (my children and spouses); Cristain McPherson (my children and spouses); Ruth Jonson (Tomson ?) (my children and spouses); Wm. (my children and spouses); Betty McPherson (my children and spouses); Daniel (my children and spouses); Mary McPherson (my children and spouses); Margaret (my children and spouses); Jesse Pierce (my children and spouses); John (my children and spouses); Hannah McPherson (my children and spouses); Aaron (my children and spouses); Phebe Lindley (my children and spouses); Mary (my children and spouses); Edward Stuart (Stewart ?) (my children and spouses); Ann (my children and spouses); John Crutchfield (my children and spouses); Edith (my children and spouses); Mark Morgan (my children and spouses)
- Executors
- Daniel McPherson; John McPherson
- Witnesses
- Jacob Nugent; Daniel McPherson; James Neal; Enoch McPherson
- Money and goods
- a crown
Reading note: Writing bad; uncertain readings and unpunctuated paired names retained, surnames only where printed. Child/spouse distinction in paired list is not supplied.
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 517.
- Abstract: Ruth Herndon Shields, Abstracts of Wills Recorded in Orange County, North Carolina, 1800–1850 (1958), page 78.
- 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).
