Will of Elizabeth (x) Snipes

Elizabeth Snipes made one-dollar legacies and left land-sale proceeds to Thomas, Robert, Martha, and Elizabeth Snipes.

Kind of paper

Will

Testator

Elizabeth (x) Snipes (printed ELIZABETH (x) SNIPES)

Dated

10 July 1837

Proved

May 1837 court

A second reading

As the abstract prints them, the will was proved before it was dated, so one of the dates is wrong. Mark Chilton’s index of the will books gives the probate as August 1837. Check the will book to settle it.

Also left something

Willis Snipes; Mary Shelby (wife of John Shelby); Sarah Masey (wife of Lonnie ? Masey); Dempsey Snipes; Oren Snipes; Thomas Snipes; Robert Snipes; Martha Snipes; Elizabeth Snipes

Executors

Thomas M. Durham (friends); James Rosser (friends)

Witnesses

James Lloyd; Mary Lloyd

Land

my land in Chatham County

Money and goods

$1

Also named

John Shelby; Lonnie ? Masey

Reading note: Writing July 1837 follows proved May 1837, as printed. Shields questions Lonnie ? Masey.

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 421.
• Abstract: Ruth Herndon Shields, Abstracts of Wills Recorded in Orange County, North Carolina, 1800–1850 (1958), page 174.
• 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).