Orange County Indexed
Will of Jacob Jeffries
Will Book D, page 543 · dated 14 July 1818 · proved August 1818
Jacob Jeffries left his estate to Jane, including a bounty ticket, and one dollar each to his first wife’s children.
- Kind of paper
- Will
- Testator
- Jacob Jeffries (printed JACOB JEFFRIES)
- Dated
- 14 July 1818
- Proved
- August 1818 court
- Family named
- Jane (wife); Reuben Jeffries (my first wife’s children); Mourning Jeffries (my first wife’s children); John Jeffries (my first wife’s children); Katie Ammons (my first wife’s children); Betsy Gray (my first wife’s children)
- Executor
- Jane (wife)
- Witnesses
- Rob’t L. Mitchell; David (x) Hathcock
- Money and goods
- the Bounty Ticket of $3000 due by Major Thomas Donahoo; a dollar
- Also named
- Thomas Donahoo (debtor; Major)
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 543.
- Abstract: Ruth Herndon Shields, Abstracts of Wills Recorded in Orange County, North Carolina, 1800–1850 (1958), page 83.
- 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).
