Will of Andrew Burns

Andrew Burns distributed land among sons, named wife Martha and two daughters, and appointed William and Samuel Burns executors.

Kind of paper

Will

Testator

Andrew Burns (printed ANDREW BURNS)

Dated

15 May 1834

Proved

November 1837 court

Family named

Martha (wife); William Burns (eldest son); Samuel Burns (son); Andrew Johnson Burns (son); William (son); Margaret Mitchell Burns (daughter; unmarried); Mary Strain (daughter wife Alex Strain); Alex Strain

Executors

William (son); Samuel Burns (son)

Witnesses

C. W. Johnston; William Duskin; John Boroughs

Land

Blackwood tract; land joining Alex. Craig ... David Strayhorn's line; land joining Wm Robson and Mary Flintoff

Also named

Alex. Craig; David Strayhorn; Wm Robson; Mary Flintoff

In the paper’s words

“weak and infirm”

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 512.
• Abstract: Ruth Herndon Shields, Abstracts of Wills Recorded in Orange County, North Carolina, 1800–1850 (1958), page 178.
• 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).