Will of Jesse Miller

Jesse Miller named wife Margaret and child Jesse Miller, mentioned five other unnamed children, and appointed Henry Whitted executor.

Kind of paper

Will

Testator

Jesse Miller (printed JESSE MILLER)

Dated

As printed: “Will dated 11 July 18”

Proved

February 1840 court

A second reading

Mark Chilton’s index of the will books gives the date as 16 July 1840. Check the will book to settle it.

Family named

Margaret (wife); Jesse Miller (Jesse Miller and other five children)

Executor

Henry Whitted

Witnesses

A. C. Murdock; Alvis Nichols

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 46.
• Abstract: Ruth Herndon Shields, Abstracts of Wills Recorded in Orange County, North Carolina, 1800–1850 (1958), page 185.
• 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).