Will of Joseph Shaw

Joseph Shaw provided for children, grandchildren, and sons-in-law and appointed daughter Fantitina J. Shaw executrix.

Kind of paper

Will

Testator

Joseph Shaw (printed JOSEPH SHAW)

Dated

27 February 1826

Proved

August 1832 court

Family named

Joseph B. Shaw (son); Neal H. Shaw (son); Maria Kinnion (daughter); Drusilla Ann Hargis (daughter); Catherine H. Horton (daughter); Elinor Ann Ray (daughter); Rebecca E. Shaw (daughter); Fantitina Joys Shaw (daughter); Fantitina J. Shaw (daughter); Benjamin J. Kinnion (grandson); Joseph John Shaw (grandson); Neal H. Horton (grandson); Anthony W. Horton (grandson); Maria B. Hargis (her daughter); John Warren (son-in-law); James M. Wheat (?) (son-in-law); Paul Kennion (son-in-law); Dennis Hargis (son-in-law)

Executor

Fantitina J. Shaw (daughter)

Witnesses

Murrell Breesse; Thos. V. Hargis; J. P. Sneed

Money and goods

10 shillings each

Reading note: Shields questions James M. Wheat (?). Daughter Fantitina Joys Shaw and executrix Fantitina J. Shaw retained separately as printed.

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, pages 277–279.
• Abstract: Ruth Herndon Shields, Abstracts of Wills Recorded in Orange County, North Carolina, 1800–1850 (1958), page 148.
• 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).