Will of Joseph Pickett

Joseph Pickett named Nancy and supposed son John Copley, who lived with him and had been raised and bound by him.

Kind of paper

Will

Testator

Joseph Pickett (printed JOSEPH PICKETT)

Dated

14 November 1822

Proved

February 1823 court

Family named

Nancy (wife); John Copley (Supposed son, son of Dolly Copley; Lives with me, raised by me, and bound by me - 17 February 1816)

Witnesses

Jacob Whitaker; Isley Copley

Also named

Dolly Copley (mother of supposed son)

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 30.
• Abstract: Ruth Herndon Shields, Abstracts of Wills Recorded in Orange County, North Carolina, 1800–1850 (1958), page 104.
• 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).