Will of Temperance Primrose

Temperance Primrose divided her estate into nine shares among children and other beneficiaries and appointed John Primrose and Elizabeth Garrard executors.

Kind of paper

Will

Testator

Temperance Primrose (printed TEMPERANCE PRIMROSE)

Dated

19 October 1835

Proved

February 1836 court

Family named

John Primrose (son); Elizabeth Garrard (daughter); William Primrose (six of my children); Rachel Wheeler (six of my children); Frances Culberhouse (six of my children); Ann Chisenhall (six of my children); Thomas Primrose (six of my children); George Primrose (six of my children)

Also left something

Aga Primrose (daughter of Pegga Primrose); John Primrose; Elizabeth Garrard; Mary Stem; William Primrose; Rachel Wheeler; Frances Culberhouse; Ann Chisenhall; Thomas Primrose; George Primrose

Executors

John Primrose (son); Elizabeth Garrard (daughter)

Witnesses

Thomas Flint; Lewis Hutchins

Also named

James Primrose (deceased); Pegga Primrose (Dec'd)

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 368.
• Abstract: Ruth Herndon Shields, Abstracts of Wills Recorded in Orange County, North Carolina, 1800–1850 (1958), page 163.
• 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).