Will of Willis (x) Trewit or Truet or Truett

Willis Trewit provided for his wife, four sons, and five daughters and appointed Levi Truett and two others executors.

Kind of paper

Will

Testator

Willis (x) Trewit or Truet or Truett (printed WILLIS (x) TREWIT or TRUET or TRUETT)

Dated

7 January 1829

Proved

August 1829 court

A second reading

Mark Chilton’s index of the will books gives the testator as Willis Trewit. Check the will book to settle it.

Family named

Nancy (Wife); John (two oldest sons); Levi (two oldest sons); Spencer (two youngest sons); Willis (two youngest sons); Levi Truett (son); Gatsey Hall (daughter); Mary Danley (daughter); Eleanor (three youngest daughters); Elizabeth (three youngest daughters); Nancy (three youngest daughters)

Executors

Levi Truett (son); Robert A. Younger; William Brinkley

Witnesses

Josiah Hurdle; William Benson

Money and goods

$1 each

In the paper’s words

“weak of body”

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 191.
• Abstract: Ruth Herndon Shields, Abstracts of Wills Recorded in Orange County, North Carolina, 1800–1850 (1958), page 132.
• 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).