Will of Richard Christmas

Richard Christmas left enslaved people and other property to relatives and caregivers and appointed James A. Craig executor.

Kind of paper

Will

Testator

Richard Christmas (printed RICHARD CHRISTMAS)

Dated

25 June 1830

Proved

May 1833 court

Family named

James (brother; deceased); Mary G. Christmas (niece); Nancy Christmas (daughter of my deceased brother James); Henrietta Christmas (daughter of my deceased brother James); John (nephew, sons of my deceased brother James); William (nephew, sons of my deceased brother James); John Green (my nephew; of Warrenton); Mary Young (niece; widow); Mary Powers (my niece, wife of Richard Powers); Ann Christmas Lytle ? (niece of my deceased wife); Mary Smart (niece of my deceased wife); Peggy Lankston (niece of my deceased wife); Richard Powers; Mary Edward Green (my niece, daughter of my nephew John Green)

Also left something

Betsy Cooper (Miss); Richard Glass (son of Stephen and Betsy Glass); Stephen (his parents); Betsy Glass (his parents); James A. Craig (Dr.)

Executor

James A. Craig (Dr.)

Witnesses

A. D. Murphey; Arch'd Murphey; V. M. Murphy

Enslaved people not named

Many enslaved people|enslaved person

Money and goods

$100; furniture

Reading note: Stephen and Betsy Glass share surname printed once. Shields questions Ann Christmas Lytle ?.

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 300.
• 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).