Will of Andrew Watson

Andrew Watson named wife Nancy, children, and grandchildren and appointed Julius Watson and son-in-law Wilson Watson executors.

Kind of paper

Will

Testator

Andrew Watson (printed ANDREW WATSON)

Dated

29 June 1842

Proved

August 1842 court

Family named

Nancy (wife); Julius Watson (son); James M. Watson (son); Tempy T. Watson (daughter); Margaret Watson (daughter wife of Wilson Watson); Elizabeth Durkey (daughter; dec’d wife of .... Dorkey); Alexander Watson (her two children); Juliana Watson (her two children); Wilson Watson; Dorkey; Samuel Riley (son-in-law)

Executors

Julius Watson (son); Wilson Watson (son-in-law)

Witnesses

Levi McCollum; S? L. Turner

Money and goods

$5

Reading note: Elizabeth Durkey but husband Dorkey printed. Witness initial S? L. Turner.

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 137.
• Abstract: Ruth Herndon Shields, Abstracts of Wills Recorded in Orange County, North Carolina, 1800–1850 (1958), page 196.
• 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).