Will of Joseph D. Hughes

Joseph Hughes left land to wife Sarah and her children, named eight children, and referenced James Clark’s estate, appointing Anderson and Samuel executors.

Kind of paper

Will

Testator

Joseph D. Hughes (printed JOSEPH D. HUGHES)

Dated

8 April 1844

Proved

May 1844 court

Family named

Sarah (my wife); Anderson (son); Samuel (son); Jane (daughter); Eliza (daughter); Rice (?) (her four children); Ann (her four children); John (her four children); Sidney (her four children); Anderson (my eight children); Thomas (my eight children); Samuel (my eight children); Joseph (my eight children); Franklin (my eight children); Paisley (my eight children)

Executors

Anderson (son); Samuel (son)

Witnesses

Monroe Allen; I or J. C. McDaniel

Land

my lands lying near Person County; 500 acres

Also named

James Clark (deceased)

Reading note: Wife’s four children Rice (?) Ann John and Sidney unpunctuated. Eight children list split Anderson, Thomas, Samuel, Jane, Joseph, Franklin, Paisley, Eliza.

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 193.
• 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).