Orange County Indexed
Will of John Edwards,sr.
Will Book D, page 520 · dated 1 December 1817 · proved February 1818
John Edwards named Lucy and descendants, allocated land and a mill, and appointed Lucy, Allen, Barry Cate and Reuben Smith executors.
- Kind of paper
- Will
- Testator
- John Edwards,sr. (printed JOHN EDWARDS,SR.)
- Dated
- 1 December 1817
- Proved
- February 1818 court
- In the court minutes
- Family named
- Lucy (wife); Young Edwards (son); Allen Edwards (son); Stokes Edwards (son); John Edwards (son); Allen (son); Elizabeth (daughter); Roda Ball (daughter); Richard (Stokes Edwards’ children by his first wife); Isaac (Stokes Edwards’ children by his first wife); Allen (Stokes Edwards’ children by his first wife); John (Stokes Edwards’ children by his first wife); Nancy (Stokes Edwards’ children by his first wife); Lucy (Stokes Edwards’ children by his first wife); Cathery (Stokes Edwards’ children by his first wife); Barry Cate (brother); Rhoda (great-grandchildren, children of Richard Ricketts & Rebecca his wife); William (great-grandchildren, children of Richard Ricketts & Rebecca his wife); Mary (great-grandchildren, children of Richard Ricketts & Rebecca his wife)
- Executors
- Lucy (wife); Allen (son); Barry Cate (brother); Reuben Smith
- Witnesses
- Elijah Graves; Ariana Graves
- Land
- 60 acres in Ash County -mill-on Dead Creek
- Also named
- Richard Ricketts (parents of great-grandchildren); Rebecca (parents of great-grandchildren)
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 520.
- Abstract: Ruth Herndon Shields, Abstracts of Wills Recorded in Orange County, North Carolina, 1800–1850 (1958), page 79.
- 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).
