Orange County Indexed
Will of Samuel Nelson
Will Book E, page 426 · dated 9 October 1834 · proved August 1837
Samuel Nelson named his children and grandson Samuel Allen and noted three enslaved people previously given to Betsey Stephens.
- Kind of paper
- Will
- Testator
- Samuel Nelson (printed SAMUEL NELSON), planter.
- Dated
- 9 October 1834
- Proved
- August 1837 court
- Family named
- David Nelson (son; of Tennessee); George (son); Samuel (son); Ibby Allen (daughter); Peggy Dunn (daughter); Ginney (daughter); Betsey Stephens (daughter; of Tenn.); Samuel Allen (son of my daughter Ibby)
- Executor
- George (son)
- Witnesses
- Alf Nelson; James A. Craig
- Enslaved people not named
- Three enslaved people she received from me when she removed to Tennessee
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 426.
- Abstract: Ruth Herndon Shields, Abstracts of Wills Recorded in Orange County, North Carolina, 1800–1850 (1958), page 175.
- 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).
