Will of Abner (x) Roberts

Abner Roberts named daughters, sons, and four granddaughters and appointed friend Elijah Hester executor.

Kind of paper

Will

Testator

Abner (x) Roberts (printed ABNER (x) ROBERTS)

Dated

18 December 1840

Proved

February 1842 court

Family named

Thomas Roberts (son); Moses Roberts (son); Abner Roberts (son); Ivey Roberts (son); Jesse Roberts (my son; deceased); Elizabeth Casey (daughter); Sarah Roberts (daughter); Vinney Roberts (daughter); Susan Rew (granddaughter daughter of my son Jesse Roberts); Elizey Ann (granddaughters daughters of my son Moses Roberts); Caroline (granddaughters daughters of my son Moses Roberts); Winny Roberts (granddaughters daughters of my son Moses Roberts)

Executor

Elijah Hester (friend)

Witnesses

Mark Roberts; Presly Roberts

Money and goods

$1

In the paper’s words

“weak and low”

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 119.
• Abstract: Ruth Herndon Shields, Abstracts of Wills Recorded in Orange County, North Carolina, 1800–1850 (1958), page 194.
• 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).