Orange County Indexed
Will of Mordecai Southerland
Will Book D, page 530 · dated 25 March 1818 · proved May 1818
Mordecai Southerland left a plantation to Samuel and cash to other children; Samuel was executor.
- Kind of paper
- Will
- Testator
- Mordecai Southerland (printed MORDECAI SOUTHERLAND)
- Dated
- 25 March 1818
- Proved
- May 1818 court
- Family named
- Samuel (son); Ransom (son); William (son); Frances Turner (daughter); Susannah Glen (daughter); Polly Glen (daughter); Elizabeth Burton (daughter)
- Executor
- Samuel (son)
- Witnesses
- Kennedy Haughton; Jas. Kimbrough
- Land
- plantation
- Money and goods
- 10 shillings 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 530.
- 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).
