Orange County Indexed
Will of Enoch McPherson
Will Book E, pages 428–429 · dated 14 May 1837 · proved August 1837
Enoch McPherson named wife Sarah, children, and grandchildren, freed two unnamed enslaved people, and appointed son William McPherson executor.
- Kind of paper
- Will
- Testator
- Enoch McPherson (printed ENOCH McPHERSON)
- Dated
- 14 May 1837
- Proved
- August 1837 court
- Family named
- Sarah (wife); Eli (son); James (son); William McPherson (son); Sarah (daughter); Mary Dask ? (daughter); Phebe (daughter); Enoch (grandchildren the children of my son James); John (grandchildren the children of my son James); Aren (grandchildren the children of my son James); William (grandchildren the children of my son James); Wright (grandchildren the children of my son James)
- Executor
- William McPherson (son)
- Witnesses
- James McPherson; Isaac Andrew; John Davis
- Enslaved people not named
- His two enslaved people
- Land
- land I purchased of John Pyle; the Nall place; the Dowdy place
- Also named
- John Pyle
Reading note: Book numbering skips from E429 to500, as noted by Shields. Shields questions Mary Dask ?. Grandchildren unpunctuated Enoch John Aren William & Wright split at given names.
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 428–429.
- Abstract: Ruth Herndon Shields, Abstracts of Wills Recorded in Orange County, North Carolina, 1800–1850 (1958), page 175.
- Microfilm at the Orange County Public Library, Wall Local History Collection: reel 80003, “Record of Wills, 1822–1851, Vols. E, F” (State Archives film).
