Will of Joseph Dickson

Joseph Dickson provided for children and grandchildren and appointed trustees to hold Julia and Robert’s shares until Robert matured.

Kind of paper

Will

Testator

Joseph Dickson (printed JOSEPH DICKSON)

Dated

12 May 1834

Proved

May 1834 court

Family named

Alexander C. Dickson (son); Mary M. Herndon (daughter); Julia Newell Dickson (my daughter); Maturine C. Herndon (her two sons); Coslett M. Herndon (her two sons); Mary Ann (my granddaughter now the wife of Anderson Ferrell); Mary Ann Dickson (granddaughter); Caroline Dickson (granddaughter); Robert William Dickson (my grandson); Anderson Ferrell; Joseph Marcom (husband of Caroline Dickson)

Executors

Hugh Waddell; Robert WM. Dickson; Presley H. Mangum

Trustees

Hugh Waddell (Respected friends; Esquires attorneys-at-law); Robert William Dickson (Respected friends; Esquires attorneys-at-law); Presley H. Mangum (Respected friends; Esquires attorneys-at-law)

Witnesses

Joseph Marcom; F. Bilbo; Elizabeth (x) Rigsby; Mary (x) Marcom

In the paper’s words

“far advanced in years”

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 319.
• Abstract: Ruth Herndon Shields, Abstracts of Wills Recorded in Orange County, North Carolina, 1800–1850 (1958), page 156.
• 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).