Will of Isaac (x) Jackson

Isaac Jackson named his father and three sisters and appointed Levi Jackson executor.

Kind of paper

Will

Testator

Isaac (x) Jackson (printed ISAAC (x) JACKSON)

Dated

6 March 1820

Proved

August 1820 court

Family named

James Jackson (father); Elizabeth (sister); Ruth Jackson (sister); Sarah Cloud (sister)

Executor

Levi Jackson (trusty friend)

Witnesses

A. G. Jackson; Jacob Jackson; Benoni Jackson

Money and goods

$1

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 581.
• Abstract: Ruth Herndon Shields, Abstracts of Wills Recorded in Orange County, North Carolina, 1800–1850 (1958), page 91.
• 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).