Orange County Indexed
Will of James Wilson
Will Book D, page 537 · dated 24 January 1813 · proved August 1818
James Wilson left his plantation to sisters Maryann and Elizabeth, who were to support his parents.
- Kind of paper
- Will
- Testator
- James Wilson (printed JAMES WILSON)
- Dated
- 24 January 1813
- Proved
- August 1818 court
- Family named
- Maryann (sister); Elizabeth (sister)
- Executors
- Ja mes Lapslie; Thomas Armstrong
- Witnesses
- William Shepperd; Egbert Shepperd
- Land
- plantation
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 537.
- Abstract: Ruth Herndon Shields, Abstracts of Wills Recorded in Orange County, North Carolina, 1800–1850 (1958), page 82.
- 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).
