Will of Benjamin Piggott

Benjamin Piggott named children, sons-in-law and four grandchildren, with cash legacies to several family members.

Kind of paper

Will

Testator

Benjamin Piggott (printed BENJAMIN PIGGOTT)

Dated

8 August 1813

Proved

May 1818 court

Family named

Joshua (son; eldest); John Piggott (son); Benjamin Piggott (youngest son); Patience Cox (daughter; oldest); Elizabeth Wheeler (daughter); Mary Keggs (daughter); Ruth Horniday (daughter); Benjamin Piggott (son of Joshua); Benjamin Piggott (son of John); Hannah Piggott (daughter of Benjamin); Mary Piggott (daughter of Benjamin); Jeremiah Cox (son-in-law); Charles Davis (son-in-law)

Witnesses

Jeremiah Piggott; Thomas Marshall; Benj. Wheeler

Money and goods

$1 each

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 529.
• Abstract: Ruth Herndon Shields, Abstracts of Wills Recorded in Orange County, North Carolina, 1800–1850 (1958), page 81.
• 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).