Orange County Indexed
Will of William Kirkland
Will Book E, pages 388–390 · dated 16 October 1829
William Kirkland named wife Margaret and children and appointed John Kirkland and Thomas Ruffin trustees and executors for his indebted estate.
- Kind of paper
- Will
- Testator
- William Kirkland (printed WILLIAM KIRKLAND)
- Dated
- 16 October 1829
- Proved
- Date not given
- A second reading
- Mark Chilton’s index of the will books gives the probate as August 1836. Check the will book to settle it.
- Family named
- Margaret (wife); John Kirkland (son); Martha (married daughter); Alexander (my four children); Mary (my four children); Susan (my four children); Phebe (my four children); Thomas Ruffin (his-son-in-law)
- Executors
- John Kirkland (son); Thomas Ruffin (his-son-in-law)
- Trustees
- John Kirkland (son); Thomas Ruffin (his-son-in-law)
- Also named
- David Yarborough
Reading note: Proved date unstated; Shields says unclear whether four named children are the four younger children.
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 388–390.
- Abstract: Ruth Herndon Shields, Abstracts of Wills Recorded in Orange County, North Carolina, 1800–1850 (1958), page 168.
- 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).
