Orange County Indexed
Will of James Herndon
Will Book F, page 31 · dated 19 February 1838 · proved November 1839
James Herndon distributed land and other property among children and grandson Lorenzo J. Vann and appointed Thomas Bilbo and Anderson Ferrell executors.
- Kind of paper
- Will
- Testator
- James Herndon (printed JAMES HERNDON)
- Dated
- 19 February 1838
- Proved
- November 1839 court
- Family named
- Mary M. Herndon (wife); Maturine C. Herndon (son); Coslett M(axwell) Herndon (son); James (son); Elizabeth Carlton (daughter); Terminia Herndon (daughter); Nancy Barbee (daughter); Lorenzo J. Vann (grandson)
- Executors
- Thomas Bilbo; Anderson Ferrell
- Witnesses
- Aquilla Herndon; Sullivan Leigh
- Land
- part of tract bought ftom Robert Campbell and also the Hall tract
- Money and goods
- $1
- Also named
- Robert Campbell
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 31.
- Abstract: Ruth Herndon Shields, Abstracts of Wills Recorded in Orange County, North Carolina, 1800–1850 (1958), page 183.
- 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).
