Will of Christopher Barbee

Christopher Barbee devised enslaved people and land, named children and grandchildren, and appointed son William and Mann Patterson executors.

Kind of paper

Will

Testator

Christopher Barbee (printed CHRISTOPHER BARBEE)

Dated

5 February 1823

Proved

May 1834 court

Family named

Francis (son); William (son); Elizabeth (daughter who married Samuel Allen); Nancy (daughter who married Edward Jones); Susanna (daughter who married Wm. Henry Merritt); Polly Allen (my granddaughter, daughter of my daughter Elizabeth); Christopher Allen (grandson); Willis Jones (grandson); Samuel Allen; Edward Jones; Wm. Henry Merritt

Executors

William (son); Mann Patterson (friend)

Witnesses

J. Henderson; N. I. King; Maurice Henderson

Enslaved people not named

Numerous enslaved people|a certain enslaved person

Land

lands on Morgan Creek; lands on Bolind's Creek which I bought of Tapley Booth

Places

Morgan Creek; Bolind's Creek; State of Tennessee

Also named

Tapley Booth

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, pages 321–323.
• 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).