Will of Benjamin (x) Carroll

Benjamin Carroll named wife Nancy, sons, and other beneficiaries; son Alsey Carroll was executor.

Kind of paper

Will

Testator

Benjamin (x) Carroll (printed BENJAMIN (x) CARROLL)

Dated

3 November 1845

Proved

February 1846 court

Family named

Nancy (wife); Alsey Carroll (son); Eli Carroll (son); Archibald Carroll (son); Charles Carroll (son); Benjamin Carroll (son); Clement Carroll (son); Stephen Carroll (son)

Also left something

Ilai Copley; Claricey (his wife); Dicey James; Luvico ? Glenn

Executor

Alsey Carroll (son)

Witnesses

W. N. Pratt; Thos. White

Money and goods

Eli Carroll, Archibald Carroll, Charles Carroll, Benjamin Carroll, Clement Carroll and Stephen Carroll 50¢ ea.

Reading note: Continues on PDF217; Luvico ? Glenn uncertain as printed. Shared surnames were not expanded.

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 274.
• Abstract: Ruth Herndon Shields, Abstracts of Wills Recorded in Orange County, North Carolina, 1800–1850 (1958), page 214.
• 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).