Will of Daniel Booth

Daniel Booth named his wife and fifteen children, devised land, ordered his university lot sold, and appointed three executors.

Kind of paper

Will

Testator

Daniel Booth (printed DANIEL BOOTH)

Dated

2 March 1801

Proved

November 1802 court

Family named

Prissley (wife); Gray Booth (son); John Booth (son); Mark Booth (son); Tapley Booth (son); Joseph Booth (son); Daniel Booth (son); Solomon Booth (son); Alphred Booth (son); Sarah Dixon (daughter); Ruthey (daughter); Polly (daughter); Betty (daughter); Silvey (daughter); Ritty (daughter); Patty (daughter)

Executors

Prissley (wife); John Booth (son); John Moore

Witnesses

John Moore; Samson Moore; James (x) Daews ?

Land

Hutson’s plantation; 150 acres west of my mountain tract; 125 acres joining Mark’s; 175 acres joining Tapley; 245 acres known by name of Caselwary place; one half of home plantation including dwelling house; other half of my Home Tract; My lot at the University

Money and goods

20 shillings

Reading note: Source questions James (x) Daews ?.

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 79.
• Abstract: Ruth Herndon Shields, Abstracts of Wills Recorded in Orange County, North Carolina, 1800–1850 (1958), page 12.
• 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).