Orange County Indexed
Will of Edward Wilson
Will Book D, page 538 · dated 28 January 1813 · proved August 1818
Edward Wilson named Mary and children, acknowledged earlier gifts, and assigned plantation interests; his wife and Samuel were executors.
- Kind of paper
- Will
- Testator
- Edward Wilson (printed EDWARD WILSON)
- Dated
- 28 January 1813
- Proved
- August 1818 court
- A second reading
- Mark Chilton’s index of the will books gives the testator as Edward Wortham. Check the will book to settle it.
- Family named
- Mary (wife); Charles Wortham (son); William Wortham (son); John Wortham (son); James (son); Alfred Wortham (son); Samuel Wortham (son); Samuel (son); Elizabeth (daughter); Sarah Hall (daughter); Nancy Wilson (daughter)
- Executor
- Samuel (son)
- Witnesses
- Joseph Armstrong; Peggy Armstrong
- Land
- plantation I now live on ... known as Walker Tract; tract where Mrs. Sarah Dunnagan lives
- Money and goods
- $1; a mare; $10
- Also named
- Sarah Dunnagan (Mrs.; life interest)
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 538.
- 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).
