Will of John Leigh

John Leigh made cash and goods legacies and divided the remaining estate among eleven children; Jack and Sullivan Leigh were executors.

Kind of paper

Will

Testator

John Leigh (printed JOHN LEIGH)

Dated

19 October 1819

Proved

February 1821 court

Family named

Richerson (son); Jack B. Leigh (son); Sullivan Leigh (son); Jane (daughter); Aleus (?) (daughter); Caty (daughter); Lear (daughter); Susannah (daughter); Patsy (daughter); Dianna (daughter); Jack B. Leigh (my under named children); Sullivan Leigh (my under named children); Washington Leigh (my under named children); Richard Leigh (my under named children); Samuel Leigh (my under named children); Thomas Leigh (my under named children); Ewel Leigh (my under named children); Patsy Ellice (my under named children); Nancy Garrard (my under named children); Betsy Leigh (my under named children); Dianna Leigh (my under named children)

Executors

Jack B. Leigh (son); Sullivan Leigh (son)

Witnesses

Anderson Clements; Philip Alston; Isaiah Marcom

Money and goods

5 shillings each; $20; bed & furniture each

Reading note: Aleus (?) questioned; initial daughter/son names differ from later list, retained separately as printed.

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 593.
• Abstract: Ruth Herndon Shields, Abstracts of Wills Recorded in Orange County, North Carolina, 1800–1850 (1958), page 93.
• 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).