Will of Bartholemew (x) Stovall

Bartholemew Stovall left his estate to his wife for younger children, acknowledged earlier shares, and appointed three executors.

Kind of paper

Will

Testator

Bartholemew (x) Stovall (printed BARTHOLEMEW (x) STOVALL)

Dated

22 December 1802

Proved

February 1803 court

In the court minutes

• Administration of an estate, May 1806 term

Family named

Ann (wife); Thos. Stovall (my five children); Bathew Stovall (my five children); Mathew Griffin (my five children); George Stovall (my five children); Susanna (my remaining children); William (my remaining children); Jane (my remaining children); Frederick (my remaining children); Henery (my remaining children); Anna (my remaining children); Phebe (my remaining children); Nancy Wily (my remaining children)

Executors

Ann (wife); William Stovall (real (?) friend); Frederick Stovall (real (?) friend)

Witnesses

Daniel Green; Elisha Manum (?); Benjamin (x) Barber

Money and goods

five shillings specie

Also named

David Chandler (husband of unnamed child)

Reading note: Compiler calls will confusing; children split at given names; Nancy Wily retained together. Source questions Elisha Manum (?).

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 91.
• Abstract: Ruth Herndon Shields, Abstracts of Wills Recorded in Orange County, North Carolina, 1800–1850 (1958), page 14.
• 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).