Orange County Indexed
Will of Joseph Ward
Will Book E, page 296 · dated 18 January 1832 · proved May 1833
Joseph Ward provided for children of two wives and appointed wife Charity and brother-in-law James Law executors.
- Kind of paper
- Will
- Testator
- Joseph Ward (printed JOSEPH WARD)
- Dated
- 18 January 1832
- Proved
- May 1833 court
- Family named
- Charity (wife); Robertson (son); Ransom (son); William (son); Josiah (son); Isham (or Isaac ?) (son); John (son); Edwin (son); James (son); Marvil (son); Sally Parham (daughter); Patsy Blailoc (daughter); Bethany (daughter); Elizabeth Moor (daughter); Rebecca Moor (daughter); Mary Ward (daughter); Jennet (daughter); Louisa (daughter); Nancy Ann (daughter; unmarried); James Law (brother-in-law)
- Executors
- Charity (wife); James Law (brother-in-law)
- Witness
- Thomas Howard
- Money and goods
- 50¢ each
Reading note: Shields questions Isham (or Isaac ?); first group of children only seems to be first wife’s according to Shields.
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 296.
- Abstract: Ruth Herndon Shields, Abstracts of Wills Recorded in Orange County, North Carolina, 1800–1850 (1958), page 151.
- 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).
