Will of Stephen Justice

Stephen Justice gave an enslaved person to Stephen Pleasants, made family and other legacies, and left one thousand dollars to foreign missions.

Kind of paper

Will

Testator

Stephen Justice (printed STEPHEN JUSTICE)

Dated

19 January 1835

Proved

May 1840 court

A second reading

Mark Chilton’s index of the will books gives the testator as Stephen Justus and the date as 17 January 1835. Check the will book to settle it.

Family named

Anna (wife); Davy (my two brothers); Allen Justus (my two brothers); Kyer (?) or Lizy (?) Robertson (sister); Mary Lloyd (?) Floyd (?) (sister-in-law; deceased)

Also left something

Stephen Pleasants (beloved friend); Stephen Farthing (son of William Farthing deceased); Matildy Perry; Stephen Brown; Phelemon Lacy; William Roberts (son of Paschal Roberts)

Executors

Anna Justus; Stephen Pleasants, Sr.

Witnesses

Thomas Weaver; William Roberts

Enslaved people not named

An enslaved person

Money and goods

$100; $200; $300; $1000 to foreign missions

Also named

William Farthing (deceased); William Worel (?) (Elder, deceased); Paschal Roberts

Reading note: Shields questions William Worel (?), Kyer (?) or Lizy (?) Robertson, Mary Lloyd (?) Floyd (?). Davy and Allen Justus share surname printed once.

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 52.
• Abstract: Ruth Herndon Shields, Abstracts of Wills Recorded in Orange County, North Carolina, 1800–1850 (1958), page 186.
• 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).