Orange County Indexed
Will of Elizabeth (x) Tinning
Will Book D, page 53 · dated 12 February 1800 · proved November 1801
Elizabeth Tinning named beneficiaries including a niece and cousins and appointed John Grahams executor.
- Kind of paper
- Will
- Testator
- Elizabeth (x) Tinning (printed ELIZABETH (x) TINNING)
- Dated
- 12 February 1800
- Proved
- November 1801 court
- Family named
- Sarah Thompson (my sister’s daughter); Richard Ball (my cousin); Wilson Ball (my cousin)
- Also left something
- Elizabeth Grahams (daughter of John Grahams); Mary Gresham; Fanny Walker (daughter to John Walker); Fanny Hall (daughter to John Hall); John Grahams (Sr.); James Grahams (his two sons); George Grahams (his two sons)
- Executor
- John Grahams
- Witnesses
- Caleb Simmons; James Tate
- Money and goods
- £ 10 when she comes of age; ten pounds when she is of such age to receive it
- Also named
- John Grahams (father of beneficiary); John Walker (father of beneficiary); John Hall (father of beneficiary)
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 53.
- Abstract: Ruth Herndon Shields, Abstracts of Wills Recorded in Orange County, North Carolina, 1800–1850 (1958), page 6.
- 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).
