Orange County Indexed
Will of James Turner, Sr.
Will Book D, page 527 · dated 11 January 1813 · proved May 1818
James Turner named Mary and children, left David a plantation, and appointed Mary and David executors.
- Kind of paper
- Will
- Testator
- James Turner, Sr. (printed JAMES TURNER, SR.)
- Dated
- 11 January 1813
- Proved
- May 1818 court
- Family named
- Mary (wife); David Turner (son); James Turner (son); John Turner (son); David (son); Hannah (daughter; all unmarried); Sarah (daughter; all unmarried); Jane (daughter; all unmarried); Nelly Craig (daughter); Mary Holland (daughter); Ann (daughter); Christian Milligan (daughter)
- Executors
- Mary (wife); David (son)
- Witnesses
- J. S. Smith; William (x) Smith
- Land
- plantation
- Money and goods
- 10 shillings
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 527.
- Abstract: Ruth Herndon Shields, Abstracts of Wills Recorded in Orange County, North Carolina, 1800–1850 (1958), page 80.
- 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).
