Will of Adam (x) Whitsel

Adam Whitsel named descendants and gave legacies to family members and others.

Kind of paper

Will

Testator

Adam (x) Whitsel (printed ADAM (x) WHITSEL)

Dated

3 January 1818

Proved

February 1822 court

Family named

Ludowick (son; deceased); Jacob (son; have all had land deeded to them); Daniel (son; have all had land deeded to them); John (son; have all had land deeded to them); Henry (son; have all had land deeded to them); Christian Whitsel (son; have all had land deeded to them); Barbara (daughter); Caty (daughter); Mary (daughter); Elizabeth Turley (daughter)

Witnesses

Wm. Montgomery; John Boon

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 7.
• Abstract: Ruth Herndon Shields, Abstracts of Wills Recorded in Orange County, North Carolina, 1800–1850 (1958), page 98.
• 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).