Orange County Indexed
Will of Stephen Beckham or Berkham
Will Book D, page 606 · dated 20 September 1820 · proved November 1821
Stephen Beckham or Berkham named Catherine and children and grandson John; son Joshua was executor.
- Kind of paper
- Will
- Testator
- Stephen Beckham or Berkham (printed STEPHEN BECKHAM or BERKHAM)
- Dated
- 20 September 1820
- Proved
- November 1821 court
- A second reading
- Mark Chilton’s index of the will books gives the testator as Stephen Beckham. Check the will book to settle it.
- Family named
- Catherine (wife); Joshua (son); Joseph (son); Thomas (son); Leonard (son); Caswell (son); Nancy (daughter); Tabitha (daughter); Elizabeth (daughter); John (my grandson that lives with me; surname not stated)
- Executor
- Joshua (son)
- Witnesses
- D. Patterson; Isaac Patterson
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 606.
- Abstract: Ruth Herndon Shields, Abstracts of Wills Recorded in Orange County, North Carolina, 1800–1850 (1958), page 96.
- 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).
