Will of Michael Holt

Michael Holt devised land and enslaved people to descendants and directed two hundred dollars for enclosing a family burial plot.

Kind of paper

Will

Testator

Michael Holt (printed MICHAEL HOLT)

Dated

20 January 1842

Proved

May 1842 court

Family named

William (son); Edwin M. Holt (son); William R. (son); Jane (my daughter; deceased); Nancy M Carigan (my daughter); Edwin M. Holt,Jr. (my two grandchildren, children of my deceased daughter Jane); Eliza Ann (my two grandchildren, children of my deceased daughter Jane); Alfred (my grandchildren children of my daughter Nancy M Carigan); William (my grandchildren children of my daughter Nancy M Carigan); Robert (my grandchildren children of my daughter Nancy M Carigan); John (my grandchildren children of my daughter Nancy M Carigan); James Carigan (my grandchildren children of my daughter Nancy M Carigan); Wm. A. Carigan (their father)

Executors

William R. (son); Edwin M. Holt (son); Wm. A. Carigan

Witnesses

Wm. Smith; A. T. Finley

Enslaved people not named

Certain enslaved people now in the possession of their father Wm. A. Carigan|many enslaved people

Land

Many tracts of land

Money and goods

$200

In the paper’s words

“I was born 11 July 1778”

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, pages 126–129.
• Abstract: Ruth Herndon Shields, Abstracts of Wills Recorded in Orange County, North Carolina, 1800–1850 (1958), page 195.
• 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).