Orange County Indexed
Will of Francis Jones
Will Book F, page 198 · dated 8 February 1841 · proved May 1844
Francis Jones left plantations in trust for daughter Delia Smith and to grandchildren, appointing James S. Smith executor.
- Kind of paper
- Will
- Testator
- Francis Jones (printed FRANCIS JONES), late of the county of Chatham, but now of the town of Hillsboro
- Dated
- 8 February 1841
- Proved
- May 1844 court
- Family named
- Delia Smith (only child and daughter wife of Dr. James S. Smith); Francis J. Smith (grandson; Dr.); James Sidney Smith (grandson); Mary R. Smith (granddaughter); James S. Smith (son-in-law; of Hillsboro)
- Executor
- James S. Smith
- Trustee
- James S. Smith (Dr.)
- Witnesses
- A. Parks; Thomas Faucett
- Land
- plantation on Pokeberry Creek joining John Hackney, Joseph Bynum, James Kirby & others; 2000 to 2700 acres (in Chatham); plantation in Chatham joining Isaiah Cole, Wm. Merritt, 1800 acres; plantation in Orange on Price's Creek
- Places
- Pokeberry Creek; Chatham; Orange; Price's Creek
- Also named
- John Hackney; Joseph Bynum; James Kirby; Isaiah Cole; Wm. Merritt
- In the paper’s words
- “in advanced age and feeble”
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 198.
- Abstract: Ruth Herndon Shields, Abstracts of Wills Recorded in Orange County, North Carolina, 1800–1850 (1958), page 204.
- 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).
