Will of Alvis Nichols

Alvis Nichols named wife Polly and unnamed children, mentioning plantations occupied by William and Elenor Faucett and Jacob Jackson Sr.

Kind of paper

Will

Testator

Alvis Nichols (printed ALVIS NICHOLS)

Dated

25 September 1844

Proved

May 1845 court

A second reading

Mark Chilton’s index of the will books gives the testator as Alvis Nicholas. Check the will book to settle it.

Family named

Polly (wife)

Also named

William (now live on plantation); Elenor Faucett (now live on plantation); Jacob Jackson Sr (now lives on plantation)

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 257.
• Abstract: Ruth Herndon Shields, Abstracts of Wills Recorded in Orange County, North Carolina, 1800–1850 (1958), page 212.
• 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).