Orange County Indexed
Will of John Long, Sr.
Will Book E, pages 400–401 · dated 12 January 1836 · proved November 1836
John Long provided schooling and a store for Alphonso, named wife Mary, Flora, and six children of his first wife.
- Kind of paper
- Will
- Testator
- John Long, Sr. (printed JOHN LONG, SR.)
- Dated
- 12 January 1836
- Proved
- November 1836 court
- Family named
- Mary W. Long (wife); Alphonso (son; to continue at school until he is 18½ years old); Nancy (Each of my first wife's children); John (Each of my first wife's children); Rebecca (Each of my first wife's children); Sally (Each of my first wife's children); Polly (Each of my first wife's children); Rachel (Each of my first wife's children)
- Executors
- John Newlin; James Newlin (his son)
- Witnesses
- D. Patterson; A. Shearer; Fred'k Brown
- Land
- store
- Money and goods
- $200; My store
- Also named
- Flora (his sister (Alphonso's))
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 400–401.
- Abstract: Ruth Herndon Shields, Abstracts of Wills Recorded in Orange County, North Carolina, 1800–1850 (1958), page 170.
- 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).
