Orange County Indexed
Will of James Clark
Will Book F, page 191 · dated 12 December 1842 · proved May 1844
James Clark named wife Ann, children, and two Lindsey grandchildren and appointed James W. and Stephen Clark executors.
- Kind of paper
- Will
- Testator
- James Clark (printed JAMES CLARK)
- Dated
- 12 December 1842
- Proved
- May 1844 court
- Family named
- Ann (wife); James W. Clark (son); Stephen Clark (son); James W. (son); Grace (daughter; unmarried); Sarah Hughs (daughter); I.B.Bethiah Lindsey (granddaughter); James C. Lindsey (grandson)
- Also left something
- Hannah H. Dickey
- Executors
- James W. (son); Stephen Clark (son)
- Witnesses
- Lemuel Wilkinson; Alexander Findley
- Land
- His land on Eno River joins John Compton, Wm. Allison, & others
- Money and goods
- $1
- Also named
- John Compton; Wm. Allison
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 191.
- Abstract: Ruth Herndon Shields, Abstracts of Wills Recorded in Orange County, North Carolina, 1800–1850 (1958), page 203.
- 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).
