Will of Margaret Watson

Margaret Watson named four daughters, four sons, and granddaughter Margaret Watson and appointed Robert Watson executor.

Kind of paper

Will

Testator

Margaret Watson (printed MARGARET WATSON)

Dated

14 January 1829

Proved

November 1831 court

Family named

James Watson (son); Andrew Watson (son); John Watson (son); Robert Watson (son); Helen Riley (daughter); Rebecca Watson (daughter); Elizabeth Comb (daughter); Nancy McCamal ? (daughter); Margaret Watson (his daughter)

Executor

Robert Watson (son)

Witnesses

Js. R. Watson; Farmer Smith

Reading note: Shields questions Nancy McCamal ?.

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 263.
• 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).