Will of Edward (x) Boswell

Edward Boswell provided for sons, daughters, widowed daughter-in-law, sons-in-law, and grandchildren and appointed James Boswell and George Graham executors.

Kind of paper

Will

Testator

Edward (x) Boswell (printed EDWARD (x) BOSWELL)

Dated

3 January 1826

Proved

August 1830 court

Family named

Craven (two eldest sons); John (two eldest sons); Thomas Boswell (my son; deceased); Edward (three other sons); Mathew (three other sons); James Boswell (three other sons); Susannah Leachman (?) (my three married daughters); Nancy Wilkerson (my three married daughters); Catherine Graham (my three married daughters); Charlotte Boswell (daughter); Brown Boswell (grandson); Julia Ann Bracken (granddaughter; under 18); Catherine Graham (granddaughter); William Sulivan (grandchild); Craven Sulivan (grandchild); Nancy (grandchild); Catherine (grandchild); Elizabeth Sulivan (grandchild); Mary Boswell (widow of my son Thomas Boswell deceased); Thomas Sulivan (son-in-law); James Wilkerson (son-in-law)

Executors

James Boswell (son); George Graham

Witnesses

Andrew Hughs; Thomas Fitch

Money and goods

$1

In the paper’s words

“weak in body”

Reading note: Shields questions Susannah Leachman (?). Edward, Mathew and James Boswell and Nancy, Catherine and Elizabeth Sulivan have surnames printed once.

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 223.
• Abstract: Ruth Herndon Shields, Abstracts of Wills Recorded in Orange County, North Carolina, 1800–1850 (1958), page 138.
• 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).