Will of Philemon Holt

Philemon Holt named wife Sarah and three minor children and directed schooling for bound boy Granville Simpson.

Kind of paper

Will

Testator

Philemon Holt (printed PHILEMON HOLT)

Dated

11 May 1836

Proved

May 1836 court

A second reading

Mark Chilton’s index of the will books gives the date as 16 May 1836. Check the will book to settle it.

Family named

Sarah (wife); Mary S. Holt (my children; all minors); Jane Holt (my children; all minors); Wilkins Holt (my children; all minors); Jacob Holt (brother)

Also left something

Granville Simpson (my bound boy; now living with me to be schooled)

Executors

Sarah (wife); Jacob Holt (brother)

Witnesses

Sarah Holt; Jonah Dobyna; Elizabeth W. Waggoner

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 381.
• Abstract: Ruth Herndon Shields, Abstracts of Wills Recorded in Orange County, North Carolina, 1800–1850 (1958), page 166.
• 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).