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Orange County Indexed

Will of Isaac Jackson, Sr.

Will Book E, page 117 · dated 1 July 1824 · proved August 1826

Isaac Jackson left land to Benoni and James Jackson and provided for his wife, daughters, and other children.

Kind of paper
Will
Testator
Isaac Jackson, Sr. (printed ISAAC JACKSON, SR.)
Dated
1 July 1824
Proved
August 1826 court
Family named
Mary (wife); James Jackson (son); Elizabeth Reynolds (daughter); Ruth Pickett (daughter); Mary Thompson (daughter)
Also left something
Benoni Jackson
Executors
James Jackson; Benoni Jackson
Witnesses
Brice Jackson; Jno. Jackson
Land
60 acres; my plantation
Money and goods
50¢

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 117.
  • Abstract: Ruth Herndon Shields, Abstracts of Wills Recorded in Orange County, North Carolina, 1800–1850 (1958), page 121.
  • 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).
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