Orange County Indexed
Will of William Smith
Will Book D, page 566 · dated 10 January 1820 · proved February 1820
William Smith gave money and land to relatives and other beneficiaries and appointed Robert Smith and Robert Campbell executors.
- Kind of paper
- Will
- Testator
- William Smith (printed WILLIAM SMITH)
- Dated
- 10 January 1820
- Proved
- February 1820 court
- Family named
- John (my brother); Mary McMund (my sister); Robert (my brother); John Smith (son of my brother John); Robert Smith (son of John Smith my brother); Joseph Smith (sons of Robert my brother); John Smith (sons of Robert my brother); William Smith (son of John Smith, the grandson of my brother John); Ferze (daughter of Robert Smith, son of John Smith)
- Also left something
- Allen Compton (son of Erasmus Compton); William O’Kelly (son of William O’Kelly); Elender Smith (daughter of Polly Smith); Jane (Polly’s children; under age); Ellender (Polly’s children; under age); Entricans (?) (Polly’s children; under age); Nancy (Polly’s children; under age)
- Executors
- Robert Smith (son of John Smith); Robert Campbell
- Witnesses
- John Landers; John Ward; Jacob (x) Huggins
- Land
- a tract of land; another tract of land
- Money and goods
- $50; a note of $16 on John Ward
- Also named
- Erasmus Compton (father of legatee); William O’Kelly (father of legatee); Polly Smith (mother of beneficiaries); John Ward (debtor)
Reading note: Entricans (?) questioned; two William O’Kellys and distinct Robert/John Smith relationships retained separately.
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 566.
- Abstract: Ruth Herndon Shields, Abstracts of Wills Recorded in Orange County, North Carolina, 1800–1850 (1958), page 88.
- 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).
