Will of Samuel Wilson

Samuel Wilson distributed plantations among sons, named wife Elizabeth and seven daughters, and appointed Charles and John Wilson executors.

Kind of paper

Will

Testator

Samuel Wilson (printed SAMUEL WILSON)

Dated

5 April 1840

Proved

August 1840 court

Family named

Elizabeth (wife); Charles (son); John (son); Felix (son); John Wilson (son); Sally Roundtree (daughter); Elizabeth Dickson (daughter); Nancy Nichols (daughter); Harriet Walker (daughter); Lotty Cates (my three daughters now in the west); Jane Taylor (my three daughters now in the west); Polly Roland (or Robards ?) (my three daughters now in the west)

Executors

Charles (son); John Wilson (son)

Witnesses

Jas. Holeman; Alex. Robinson

Land

plantation after wife's death; plantation where he now lives; Turner place; Ray place

Reading note: Charles and John Wilson share surname printed once. Shields questions Polly Roland (or Robards ?).

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 63.
• Abstract: Ruth Herndon Shields, Abstracts of Wills Recorded in Orange County, North Carolina, 1800–1850 (1958), page 188.
• 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).