Will of Barney (x) Clap

Barney Clap provided for his wife, children, and sons-in-law and appointed David Clap, Emanuel Clap, and John Low executors.

Kind of paper

Will

Testator

Barney (x) Clap (printed BARNEY (x) CLAP)

Dated

10 October 1838

Proved

November 1844 court

A second reading

Mark Chilton’s index of the will books gives the date as 10 December 1838. Check the will book to settle it.

Family named

Emanuel (son); David Clap (son); Emanuel Clap (son); Polly (daughter; of unsound mind); Penny (daughter, John Lacy’s (?) Lue’s (?) wife); Barbara (daughters wife of George Clap); Peggy (daughters wife of Frederick Sherer ?); Ceatty ? Clap (daughters wife of Isaac Clap); Sally Kime ? (daughter); Nelly (daughters wife of John Lowe); George Clap; Frederick Sherer ?; John Lue ?; Isaac Clap; John Lowe; John Low (son-in-law)

Executors

David Clap (son); Emanuel Clap (son); John Low (son-in-law)

Witnesses

Wm. Smith; Wm. Artz; Mich'l Holt

Land

land on Bever Creek

Also named

John Lacy (?) Lue (?)

Reading note: Poor clerk handwriting per Shields: Penny John Lacy’s (?) Lue’s (?) wife; Frederick Sherer ?, John Lue ?, Ceatty ? Clap, Sally Kime ?.

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, pages 229–233.
• Abstract: Ruth Herndon Shields, Abstracts of Wills Recorded in Orange County, North Carolina, 1800–1850 (1958), page 208.
• 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).