Orange County Indexed
Will of John Welborn or Wilbourne
Will Book D, page 553 · dated 19 January 1819 · proved February 1819
John Welborn or Wilbourne named Mary, relatives and friends and freed Jeremiah, whom he held enslaved, leaving him one hundred acres.
- Kind of paper
- Will
- Testator
- John Welborn or Wilbourne (printed JOHN WELBORN or WILBOURNE)
- Dated
- 19 January 1819
- Proved
- February 1819 court
- Family named
- Mary (wife); Richard Wilborn (brother); Edward (brother); Zachariah Welborne (brother); Thomas Welborne (brother); Temperance Marshall (sister); Susannah Ludlo Jones (sister); Lida Slaughter (sister); Robert Wilborn (son of Richard); John Hampton (son of my wife)
- Also left something
- Duran Hampton (wife of Nolan Hampton); Alves (sons of Nolan Hampton); Nolan Hampton (sons of Nolan Hampton); Lewis Wilborn; Roland Cook (friends)
- Executors
- Thomas Bennehan (friends); Benjamin Bullock (friends); Nathaniel Carrington (friends)
- Witnesses
- Samuel (x) Rush; John Suit, Jr.; Robert Ashley
- Enslaved people named
- Jeremiah (freed by this paper)
- In the records of enslaved people
- Jeremiah (this paper)
- Land
- 100 acres
- Money and goods
- 50¢ each
- Also named
- Nolan Hampton (husband of Duran Hampton)
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 553.
- Abstract: Ruth Herndon Shields, Abstracts of Wills Recorded in Orange County, North Carolina, 1800–1850 (1958), page 85.
- 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).
