Will of Elizabeth Estes

Elizabeth Estes distributed Hillsborough and Eno River property among nieces, relatives, and friends; John W. Norwood and James Dodd were executors.

Kind of paper

Will

Testator

Elizabeth Estes (printed ELIZABETH ESTES)

Dated

26 October 1841

Proved

May 1845 court

Family named

Peggy Nash (sister); Mary Jane (niece); Caroline Evans (niece); Catherine Evans (niece); Isabelle Bridges (niece); Mariah Dodd (niece); Eliza Whitted (late niece); Elizabeth Thompson (my niece a daughter of Mrs. Mary Seawell & wife of Mr. Thomas); Thomas (Mr.; husband of Elizabeth Thompson)

Also left something

Sarah Grove (widow of Wm. B. Grove); Mary Whitted (daughter of my late niece Eliza Whitted); Josiah Turner (friends; Mrs.); Attelia Whitted (friends; Mrs.); Eliza Bingham (friends; Mrs.); Harriet Barton; Eliza Turner (daughters of Josiah Turner); Mary Turner (daughters of Josiah Turner); Susan Mebane (wife of James Mebene Jr.)

Executors

John W. Norwood (friends); James Dodd (friends)

Witnesses

O. F. Long; A. Mickle

Places

Eno River; Town of Hillsborough; Churton Street; Fayetteville

Also named

Wm. B. Grove (deceased husband of Sarah Grove); Mary Seawell (mother of Elizabeth Thompson); Josiah Turner (father of Eliza and Mary Turner); James Mebene Jr. (husband of Susan Mebane)

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 249.
• Abstract: Ruth Herndon Shields, Abstracts of Wills Recorded in Orange County, North Carolina, 1800–1850 (1958), page 211.
• 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).