Will of James Lapslie

James Lapslie provided for sister Elizabeth, two supposed daughters and nephew Thomas Armstrong’s children; Thomas Armstrong and Willie Shaw were executors.

Kind of paper

Will

Testator

James Lapslie (printed JAMES LAPSLIE)

Dated

11 January 1818

Proved

January 1821 court

A second reading

Mark Chilton’s index of the will books gives the probate as February 1821. Check the will book to settle it.

Family named

Lavinia Isabelle Bryant (my two supposed daughters; both under age); Jane Bryant (my two supposed daughters; both under age); Elizabeth Lapslie (sister); Thomas Armstrong (my nephew); Anderson Armstrong (children of my nephew Thomas Armstrong); Thomas Lapslie Armstrong (children of my nephew Thomas Armstrong); Seney Armstrong (children of my nephew Thomas Armstrong); Mitchell Armstrong (children of my nephew Thomas Armstrong)

Also left something

Sally Bryant (mother of my two supposed daughters)

Executors

Thomas Armstrong (trusty friends); Willie Shaw (trusty friends; Esq.)

Witnesses

A. B. Bruce; Chs. Bruce

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, pages 588–589.
• 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).