Will of Robert Walker

Robert Walker named Elenor and descendants, excluded Elizabeth Patterson, and left money in trust for a church; John and William were executors.

Kind of paper

Will

Testator

Robert Walker (printed ROBERT WALKER)

Dated

6 February 1826

Proved

May 1826 court

A second reading

Mark Chilton’s index of the will books gives the date as 6 February 1828. Check the will book to settle it.

Family named

Elenor (wife); John (son); William (son); Robert (son); Philip (son); George W. Walker (son; under age); Elizabeth Patterson (daughter; to be excluded); Sally (daughter); Polley (daughter); Peggy (daughter); Jane (daughter); Elizabeth Walker (granddaughter)

Executors

John (son); William (son)

Trustee

WM. M. Green (Rev.; in trust for Protestant Episcopal Church in this state)

Witnesses

Wm. B. Jamison; Ezekiel Laws

Money and goods

$25

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 E, page 107.
• Abstract: Ruth Herndon Shields, Abstracts of Wills Recorded in Orange County, North Carolina, 1800–1850 (1958), page 119.
• 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 80003, “Record of Wills, 1822–1851, Vols. E, F” (State Archives film).