Will of Jonathan Lindley

Jonathan Lindley distributed land in North Carolina and Indiana among family and other beneficiaries and appointed executors for each state.

Kind of paper

Will

Testator

Jonathan Lindley (printed JONATHAN LINDLEY), of Orange and State of Indiana

Dated

22 September 1824

Proved

July 1828 court

A second reading

Mark Chilton’s index of the will books gives the probate as November 1828. Check the will book to settle it.

Family named

Martha (Wife); Jonathan (son); Thomas Lindley (son); William Lindley (son); Zaccheus (son); Thomas (son; in the State of Indiana and all the Western Country); William (son; in the State of Indiana and all the Western Country); Catherine McVey (daughter); Sarah Hadley (daughter); Deborah James (daughter); Hannah Braxton (daughter); Mary Dixon (daughter); Quine Esther Clark (daughter); Ruth Farlow (daughter); Ellenor Chambers (daughter); Gubelma (daughter; under age)

Also left something

Rebecca Henley; William; Jonathan Dicks

Executors

Thomas (son; in the State of Indiana and all the Western Country); William (son; in the State of Indiana and all the Western Country); John Newlin (in State of North Carolina)

Witnesses

Owen Lindley; Thomas Maris; Aaron Maris

Land

8 acres of land; many tracts of land in Orange County, N.C. and in Orange County, Indiana

Money and goods

my big Bible; $5

Places

Orange County, N.C.; Orange County, Indiana; Paoli; State of North Carolina; State of Indiana

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, pages 167–171.
• Abstract: Ruth Herndon Shields, Abstracts of Wills Recorded in Orange County, North Carolina, 1800–1850 (1958), page 129.
• 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).