Orange County Indexed
Will of William Sheppard
Will Book E, page 24 · dated 6 April 1821 · proved November 1822
William Sheppard named children and left Tennessee acreage to Margaret; James Webb and David Yarborough were executors.
- Kind of paper
- Will
- Testator
- William Sheppard (printed WILLIAM SHEPPARD)
- Dated
- 6 April 1821
- Proved
- November 1822 court
- Family named
- Egbert Sheppard (son); Henry James Sheppard (son); Sally Grove (daughter); Margaret L. Sheppard (daughter); Wm. Sheppard (child); Betsy Ashe (child); Mary Ashe (child); Susan Jane Hay (child)
- Executors
- James Webb (Dr.); David Yarborough
- Witness
- John Haywood
- Land
- 640 acres in Tennessee in the Chickasaw Purchase
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 24.
- Abstract: Ruth Herndon Shields, Abstracts of Wills Recorded in Orange County, North Carolina, 1800–1850 (1958), page 102.
- 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).
