Will of Winney x Hardee

Winney Hardee named daughters, son William, and grandchildren and appointed William Hardee and Benjamin Wells executors.

Kind of paper

Will

Testator

Winney x Hardee (printed WINNEY x HARDEE)

Dated

10 May 1831

Proved

May 1833 court

Family named

William Hardee (son); John (son); Sally Shields (daughter); Polly Wells (daughter); Martha Carlton Thompson (daughter); Eliza Wells (daughter); Luiza Hardee (grandchild); Caroline Gordan (grandchild); Whitmell H. Hardee (grandchild); Henrietta (three of my son John's children); Luvina Daniel (three of my son John's children); Frances W. Hardee (three of my son John's children); Benjamin Wells (son-in-law)

Executors

William Hardee (son); Benjamin Wells (son-in-law)

Witnesses

J. A. McDade; H. C. McDade

Money and goods

$1

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 298.
• Abstract: Ruth Herndon Shields, Abstracts of Wills Recorded in Orange County, North Carolina, 1800–1850 (1958), page 152.
• 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).