Orange County Indexed
Will of John (x) Minnis
Will Book E, page 394 · dated 15 November 1836 · proved November 1836
John Minnis left land to William and Lavinia, named other children and grandson Ashburn, and ordered collection of any pension due.
- Kind of paper
- Will
- Testator
- John (x) Minnis (printed JOHN (x) MINNIS)
- Dated
- 15 November 1836
- Proved
- November 1836 court
- Family named
- James (son); William Minnis (son); Allen Minnis (son); Jane Taylor (daughter); Lavinia Minnis (daughter); Margaret Gant (daughter); Ashburn Minnis (grandson)
- Executors
- William F. Jones (friend); William Minnis (son)
- Witnesses
- Samuel Jones; Alf. Nelson
- Land
- half his land joining Jos Thompson
- Money and goods
- $1
- Also named
- Jos Thompson
- In the paper’s words
- “weak of body”
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 394.
- Abstract: Ruth Herndon Shields, Abstracts of Wills Recorded in Orange County, North Carolina, 1800–1850 (1958), page 169.
- 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).
