Will of Samuel (x) Garrard

Samuel Garrard distributed property among his sister and other beneficiaries and conditionally left business assets to Willie Shaw Jr or Amy Warren.

Kind of paper

Will

Testator

Samuel (x) Garrard (printed SAMUEL (x) GARRARD)

Dated

27 March 1828

Proved

May 1828 court

Family named

Susan Garrard (sister)

Also left something

James Garrard; Ann Leathers; Mary Webb Warren; Henry Warren; Willie Shaw Jr; Amy Warren

Executors

Henry Warren; Samuel Yarborough

Land

rent of my old place with exception of store house; all other lands; storehouse

Money and goods

watch; kitchen furniture; books bonds property real and personal belonging to concern of Garrard and Shaw

Also named

Fielding Leathers (father of Ann Leathers)

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 159.
• Abstract: Ruth Herndon Shields, Abstracts of Wills Recorded in Orange County, North Carolina, 1800–1850 (1958), page 128.
• 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).