Will of Henson (x) Coulter, Sr.

Henson Coulter provided money and land for his wife, sons, and daughters and appointed William Barbee and Thomas H. Taylor executors.

Kind of paper

Will

Testator

Henson (x) Coulter, Sr. (printed HENSON (x) COULTER, SR.)

Dated

7 June 1831

Proved

August 1832 court

Family named

Lizzy (wife); Anderson Coulter (son); Charles Coulter (son); Allen Coulter (son); Asa Coulter (son); Ashley Coulter (son); Thomas Coulter (son; deceased); Sherly ? Coulter (my three last sons); Bartlett Coulter (my three last sons); Fanning Coulter (my three last sons); Jane Fan (daughter); Miloy Pendergrass (daughter); Fanny Pendergrass (daughter); Milly Coulter (daughter); Eliza Coulter (my illegitimate daughter)

Executors

William Barbee Sr. (friends); Thomas H. Taylor (friends)

Witnesses

Henry Thomson; John Sparrow; Chas. R. Yancey; Ashley Coulter

Money and goods

50¢ each; 50¢; $200

Reading note: Shields questions Sherly ? Coulter.

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 280.
• 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).