Will of Joshua Johnson

Joshua Johnson named wife Sarah, sons and daughters, and business interests and appointed Joseph Huskins, Calvin Johnson, and Anna Johnson executors.

Kind of paper

Will

Testator

Joshua Johnson (printed JOSHUA JOHNSON)

Dated

23 June 1840

Proved

August 1840 court

Family named

Sarah (wife); Hiram (son); Calvin (son; youngest, under 21); Anna Johnson (daughter); Susanna (daughter); Lydia (daughter); Mary (daughter wife of Joseph Haskins); Joseph Haskins

Executors

Joseph Huskins; Calvin Johnson; Anna Johnson

Witnesses

Jno Long; Jesse Hargrave

Land

land on Deep River in Guilford County whereon my sister now resides; tannery in Chatham County; mills in Guilford County

Money and goods

stock in Cain Creek Cotton Factory

Places

Deep River; Guilford County; Chatham County; Cain Creek Cotton Factory

Also named

Wm. Albright

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 68.
• 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).