Will of Mary (x) Herndon

Mary Herndon named children and descendants, left Berry Mason one dollar, and appointed John Mason executor.

Kind of paper

Will

Testator

Mary (x) Herndon (printed MARY (x) HERNDON)

Dated

17 September 1843

Proved

August 1844 court

A second reading

Mark Chilton’s index of the will books gives the date as 7 September 1843. Check the will book to settle it.

Family named

Elizabeth Mason (my children wife of John Mason); Reaney Jenkins (my children wife of Joseph Jenkins); Matilda George (my children wife of Ezekiel George); Mary (my daughter wife of Berry Mason); William Herndon (my two grandsons the heirs of Gustin Herndon); Martha Herndon (my two grandsons the heirs of Gustin Herndon); Madison Herndon (my grandson son of Stanford Herndon); Joseph Mason (heirs of my daughter Mary); Adison Mason (heirs of my daughter Mary); Leroy Mason (heirs of my daughter Mary); Elizabeth Mason (heirs of my daughter Mary); Nancy Mason (heirs of my daughter Mary); John Mason; Joseph Jenkins; Ezekiel George; Berry Mason

Also left something

Berry (Littleberry) Mason

Executor

John Mason (friend)

Witnesses

John Marcom; Willis Marcom

Money and goods

$1

Also named

Gustin Herndon; Stanford Herndon

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 220.
• Abstract: Ruth Herndon Shields, Abstracts of Wills Recorded in Orange County, North Carolina, 1800–1850 (1958), page 207.
• 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).