Will of Mason Tarpley

Mason Tarpley left his wife a plantation and ten enslaved people and provided for his sons and unmarried daughters.

Kind of paper

Will

Testator

Mason Tarpley (printed MASON TARPLEY)

Dated

3 April 1826

Proved

August 1826 court

Family named

Elizabeth (wife); James (son); Abraim (son); William (son); Henry (son); Sarah (daughter; unmarried); Elizabeth (daughter; unmarried); Dolly (daughter; unmarried); Milly (daughter; unmarried); Nancy (daughter; unmarried)

Witnesses

Peter L. Ray; John Isley

Enslaved people not named

Ten enslaved people

Land

plantation

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 118.
• 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).