Will of Benjamin (x) Jackson

Benjamin Jackson named his wife, three sons, and seven daughters and appointed John Long executor.

Kind of paper

Will

Testator

Benjamin (x) Jackson (printed BENJAMIN (x) JACKSON)

Dated

13 September 1825

Proved

November 1826 court

Family named

Letty (wife); John (son); Alfred (son); Malehu (son); Nancy (daughter); Charity (daughter); Bien ? (daughter); Polly (daughter); Ruth (daughter); Love (daughter); Edy (daughter)

Executor

John Long, Jr.

Witnesses

D. Patterson; Jones Rivers

Reading note: Shields questions daughter Bien ?.

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 122.
• Abstract: Ruth Herndon Shields, Abstracts of Wills Recorded in Orange County, North Carolina, 1800–1850 (1958), page 122.
• 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).