Will of Absolom Tatom

Absolom Tatom named friends, siblings and nephew, devised land and a house, and appointed four executors.

Kind of paper

Will

Testator

Absolom Tatom (printed ABSOLOM TATOM), of the Town of Hillsborough but now in the city of Raleigh.

Dated

17 December 1802

Proved

February 1803 court

In the court minutes

• Will proved, 1 March 1803
• Freedom or emancipation, May 1803 term
• Administration of an estate, May 1803 term
• Freedom or emancipation, 29 August 1809

Family named

Barnet Tatom (my eldest brother); Elizabeth Hicks (my sister; of Granville County); Abner Tatom (my brothers); John Tatom (my brothers); William Tatom (my brothers); Abel Tatom (my deceased brother; deceased); Haritta Tulbylove (deceased sister; deceased); Meriah Goodwin alias Newby (deceased sister; deceased); Samuel Goodwin (nephew; of the town of Fayetteville)

Also left something

John Hogg (my friends); Catlett Campbell (my friends); David Ray (my friends); William Kirkland (my friends); Duncan Cameron (my friends); Mary Willott (wife of William Willott; in the County of -(blank)- in the State of Tennessee)

Executors

Samuel Goodwin; John Hogg; Catlett Campbell; Duncan Cameron

Witnesses

William Norwood; Ed. Jones; Gavin Alves; W. L. Strudwick

Deeds that cite this paper

Deed Book 11, page 110; Deed Book 36, page 423

Land

land on Harpeth River; my house and lot in the town of Hillsborough; interests in certain lands lying in Randolph County

Places

Harpeth River; State of Tennessee; town of Hillsborough; Randolph County

Also named

William Willott (husband of Mary Willott); William Moore (joint land interests)

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, pages 94–99.
• Abstract: Ruth Herndon Shields, Abstracts of Wills Recorded in Orange County, North Carolina, 1800–1850 (1958), page 15.
• 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).