Will of Susanna Ward

Susanna Ward named sons and daughters and provided cash for Susanna Pike’s heirs; Stephen Ward and David Patterson were executors.

Kind of paper

Will

Testator

Susanna Ward (printed SUSANNA WARD)

Dated

7 March 1817

Proved

May 1822 court

Family named

William (son); James (son); Stephen (son); Thomas (son); Antony Ward (son); Stephen Ward (son); Sarah Clark (daughter); Asther Wells (daughter); Priscilla Free (?) (daughter); Susanna Pike (daughter)

Executors

Stephen Ward (son); David Patterson

Witnesses

Isaac Patterson; John Coble

Money and goods

20 shillings

Reading note: Priscilla Free (?) questioned.

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 18.
• Abstract: Ruth Herndon Shields, Abstracts of Wills Recorded in Orange County, North Carolina, 1800–1850 (1958), page 101.
• 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).