Will of Nancy (x) Cloud

Nancy Cloud named eight children, five grandchildren, and Nathaniel J. Palmer and appointed Catlett Campbell executor.

Kind of paper

Will

Testator

Nancy (x) Cloud (printed NANCY (x) CLOUD)

Dated

13 July 1832

Proved

May 1837 court

Family named

Martha Bailiff (daughter wife of Abner Bailiff); Samuel Cloud (my children); Joel Cloud (my children); Daniel Cloud (my children); David Cloud (my children); John Cloud (my children); Mary Beavers (my children); Sarah Nichols (my children); Nancy Cloud (daughter of Samuel); Nancy Cloud (daughter of Joel); Daniel Cloud (son of Joel); Daniel Bailiff (son of Abner Bailiff); Daniel Cloud (son of David Cloud); Abner Bailiff

Also left something

Nathaniel J. Palmer (Esq.)

Executor

Catlett Campbell (friend)

Witnesses

David Murdock; Matthew Futral

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 411.
• Abstract: Ruth Herndon Shields, Abstracts of Wills Recorded in Orange County, North Carolina, 1800–1850 (1958), page 172.
• 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).