Orange County Indexed
Will of Jacob (x) Johnson
Will Book E, page 20 · dated 20 June 1822 · proved August 1822
Jacob Johnson left purchased land to wife Amy, who was executrix.
- Kind of paper
- Will
- Testator
- Jacob (x) Johnson (printed JACOB (x) JOHNSON)
- Dated
- 20 June 1822
- Proved
- August 1822 court
- Family named
- Amy (?) (wife)
- Witnesses
- Sanders Riley; Warden Riley; Austin (x) Wesson
- Land
- land I now live on which I purchased of Clement Massey
- Also named
- Clement Massey (land seller)
Reading note: Wife Amy (?) 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 20.
- 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).
