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Orange County Indexed

Will of Ann (x) Wilson

Will Book D, page 586 · dated 27 August 1820 · proved November 1820

Ann Wilson named sons, daughter Elizabeth, grandchildren and son-in-law John Wilkinson; Thomas and Elizabeth Wilson were executors.

Kind of paper
Will
Testator
Ann (x) Wilson (printed ANN (x) WILSON)
Dated
27 August 1820
Proved
November 1820 court
Family named
John Wilson (son); Thomas Wilson (son); James Wilson (son); Elizabeth Wilson (daughter); Polly (granddaughter; that lives with me); Betsy (granddaughter; that lives with me); Robert Wilkinson (grandson); John Wilkinson (son-in-law)
Executors
Thomas Wilson; Elizabeth Wilson
Witnesses
Joseph Latta; Caleb Wilson
Money and goods
$1; 5 shillings; $10

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 586.
  • Abstract: Ruth Herndon Shields, Abstracts of Wills Recorded in Orange County, North Carolina, 1800–1850 (1958), page 92.
  • 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).
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