Will of Archibald Nicholson

Archibald Nicholson named daughters and grandson Young Antony, gave small cash legacies, and appointed George and David Fogleman executors.

Kind of paper

Will

Testator

Archibald Nicholson (printed ARCHIBALD NICHOLSON)

Dated

8 August 1821

Proved

November 1821 court

Family named

Diley or Dilcey ? Davis Nicholson (daughter); Caty Davis Nicholson (daughter); Nancy Nicholson (daughter); Sukey Maras (daughter); Young Antony (grandson)

Executors

George Fogleman; David Fogleman

Money and goods

10 shillings

Also named

Delilah Nicholson (Proved by the oaths); George Fogleman (Proved by the oaths); William Clendennin (Proved by the oaths); Joseph Murray (Proved by the oaths); John Marshall (Proved by the oaths)

Reading note: Diley or Dilcey ? Davis Nicholson alternate reading; original writing very bad.

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 612.
• Abstract: Ruth Herndon Shields, Abstracts of Wills Recorded in Orange County, North Carolina, 1800–1850 (1958), page 97.
• 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).