Orange County Indexed
Will of Stephen Messer (x) Smith
Will Book E, page 160 · dated 19 February 1816
Stephen Messer Smith provided for his wife, children, and grandchildren, including schooling for grandson John.
- Kind of paper
- Will
- Testator
- Stephen Messer (x) Smith (printed STEPHEN MESSER (x) SMITH)
- Dated
- 19 February 1816
- Proved
- 1828 (no day or month given)
- Family named
- Susannah (wife); Leonard Smith (son; under age); William Smith (son; under age); Catherine Gates (daughter); Mary Smith (daughter); Johannah Parker (daughter); Elizabeth Horner (daughter); Sarah Smith (daughter); Dice (daughter); Agnes (daughter); Jinnet (granddaughter of daughter Mary); John (my grandson of my daughter Sarah)
- Executors
- Jacob Waggoner; John
- Witness
- Thomas Hall
- Land
- plantation and grist-mill
- Money and goods
- 5 shillings; 2 years school
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 160.
- 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).
