Will of Robert Harris

Robert Harris named wife Casserna, five sons, and three daughters and appointed Silas M. Link and Marcus Harris executors.

Kind of paper

Will

Testator

Robert Harris (printed ROBERT HARRIS)

Dated

26 February 1831

Proved

1831 (no day or month given)

A second reading

Mark Chilton’s index of the will books gives the probate as August 1831. Check the will book to settle it.

Family named

Casserna (wife); Marcus ? Harris (son); William Harris (son); Harrison Harris (son); Nathaniel (son); Archer (son); Marcus Harris (son); Bulia (daughter); Tempy (daughter; under age); Edny (daughter; under age)

Executors

Silas M. Link; Marcus Harris (son)

Witnesses

Duncan Cameron; Thomas D. Bennehan

Reading note: Proved month not stated. Shields questions Marcus ? Harris.

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 259.
• Abstract: Ruth Herndon Shields, Abstracts of Wills Recorded in Orange County, North Carolina, 1800–1850 (1958), page 145.
• 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).