Will of Jacob Marshill

Jacob Marshill named Margaret, children and daughter-in-law Ruth, left land to sons, and appointed his wife executrix.

Kind of paper

Will

Testator

Jacob Marshill (printed JACOB MARSHILL)

Dated

26 June 1816

Proved

May 1818 court

Family named

Margaret (wife); Francis Marshill (son); William (son); John Marshill (son); Jacob Marshill (my son); Ruth Hadley (daughter); Mary Hinshaw (daughter); Anna Thompson (daughter); Margaret Jones (daughter); Elizabeth Freeman (daughter); Ruth Marshill (daughter-in-law)

Also left something

Ann Dunn

Witnesses

Richard Thompson; Samuel Freeman; James Murray; Joseph Murray; J or I Hinshaw

Land

land on E side of Mary’s Creek

Money and goods

5 shillings if demanded; 2/6; feather bed and furniture

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 533.
• 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).