Will of John Wilson

John Wilson provided for his wife, daughters, grandson, and seven Tripp grandchildren and appointed Wilson Atwater and Charles McCauley executors.

Kind of paper

Will

Testator

John Wilson (printed JOHN WILSON)

Dated

1 February 1827

Proved

February 1829 court

Family named

Eunice (wife); Rhoda Wilson (daughter); Martha Wilson (daughter); Ann Atwater (daughter); Nancy Tripp (daughter); Millicent Pritchett (daughter); Lois Cole (daughter); Elizabeth McCauley (daughter); Martha Tripp (my daughter Nancy Tripp's children); Elizabeth Tripp (my daughter Nancy Tripp's children); Eunice Tripp (my daughter Nancy Tripp's children); Polly Tripp (my daughter Nancy Tripp's children); Millicent Tripp (my daughter Nancy Tripp's children); John Wilson Tripp (my daughter Nancy Tripp's children); William Blumer Tripp (my daughter Nancy Tripp's children); Wilson Atwater (grandson)

Executors

Wilson Atwater (friends); Charles McCauley (friends)

Witnesses

Wm. McCauley; Goodman Neville; Richard Thompson

Money and goods

$50 each

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 180.
• Abstract: Ruth Herndon Shields, Abstracts of Wills Recorded in Orange County, North Carolina, 1800–1850 (1958), page 131.
• 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).