Will of Martha Ray

Martha Ray named sons, daughters, and granddaughters and placed Sally Hopkins’s share in trust with James Jackson.

Kind of paper

Will

Testator

Martha Ray (printed MARTHA RAY)

Dated

11 March 1837

Proved

May 1838 court

Family named

George Ray (wife of; deceased); Michael Ray (son); James Collins (son); Martha Ann (daughter wife of Anderson Jackson); Delila Nickols (daughter); Polly Jackson (daughter); Jenny Collins (daughter); Sally Hopkins (my daughter wife of Cuza Hopkins); Martha A. Collins (granddaughter); Martha D. Hopkins (granddaughter); Anderson Jackson; Bradley Collins (son-in-law); Cuza Hopkins (son-in-law)

Executor

James Jackson (of James)

Trustee

James Jackson (friend; of James)

Witnesses

Levi Whitted; Thos. W. Holden

Money and goods

$1 each

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 F, page 11.
• Abstract: Ruth Herndon Shields, Abstracts of Wills Recorded in Orange County, North Carolina, 1800–1850 (1958), page 180.
• 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).