Orange County Indexed
Will of Parris Pearson
Will Book E, page 273 · dated 14 June 1832 · proved August 1832
Parris Pearson named wife Mary, children, and grandson Silas Green Clark and appointed William and Edward Collier executors.
- Kind of paper
- Will
- Testator
- Parris Pearson (printed PARRIS PEARSON)
- Dated
- 14 June 1832
- Proved
- August 1832 court
- Family named
- Mary (wife); Green (my son); William (son); Edward Collier (son); Ann Collier (daughter); Mary Moore (daughter); Stephen (my children); Thomas (my children); John M (my children); Joel (my children); Jane Marcom (my children); Sarah Trice (my children); Rachel Massey (my children); Eliza Colliear (my children); Silas Green Clark (my grandson)
- Executors
- William (son); Edward Collier (son)
- Witnesses
- R. S. Leigh; W. D. Carlton
- Money and goods
- 50¢; $2 each
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 273.
- Abstract: Ruth Herndon Shields, Abstracts of Wills Recorded in Orange County, North Carolina, 1800–1850 (1958), page 147.
- 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).
