Will of Gilbert Strayhorn

Gilbert Strayhorn named sons, sons-in-law, grandchildren and William Ansley, devised land, and appointed two sons-in-law executors.

Kind of paper

Will

Testator

Gilbert Strayhorn (printed GILBERT STRAYHORN)

Dated

15 January 1783

Proved

February 1803 court

Family named

David (son); John (son); William (son); James (son); Gilbert (grandson, sons of David; both under 21 years); John (grandson, sons of David; both under 21 years); Sarah (grandchild, sons of James Hart); John Hart (grandchild, sons of James Hart); James Hart (son-in-law); John Strain (son-in-law)

Also left something

William Ansley (?)

Executors

John Strain (my two sons-in-law); James Hart (my two sons-in-law)

Witnesses

John Allison; John Ward ?; Thomas Scarlett

Land

house wherein I now dwell with 170 acres

Money and goods

£ 20

Reading note: Grandchildren Sarah and John Hart surname printed once; source calls them sons. Source questions William Ansley (?) and John Ward ?.

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 87.
• Abstract: Ruth Herndon Shields, Abstracts of Wills Recorded in Orange County, North Carolina, 1800–1850 (1958), page 13.
• 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).