Will of Samuel Turrentine

Samuel Turrentine named wife Ann, his brother’s children, niece Seliny Ann Turrentine, Martha A. Wilson, and brothers Absalom and Daniel.

Kind of paper

Will

Testator

Samuel Turrentine (printed SAMUEL TURRENTINE)

Dated

2 July 1844

Proved

November 1845 court

Family named

Ann (wife); Absalom Turrentine (brother); Absalom (brother); Daniel (brother); Samuel W. Turrentine (brother Absalom Turrentine's two oldest children; age under age); Mary I. (or J) Turrentine (brother Absalom Turrentine's two oldest children); Seliny Ann Turrentine (niece)

Also left something

Martha A. Wilson

Executors

Charles Wilson; Daniel Turrentine

Witnesses

Joseph Brown; John L. Brown; C. Wilson

Land

100 acres called Kell Tract

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 266.
• Abstract: Ruth Herndon Shields, Abstracts of Wills Recorded in Orange County, North Carolina, 1800–1850 (1958).
• 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).