Will of Ann Wilkerson

Ann Wilkerson named three sons and five daughters and appointed Francis Wilkerson and John Wilkerson executors.

Kind of paper

Will

Testator

Ann Wilkerson (printed ANN WILKERSON)

Dated

3 July 1838

Proved

August 1838 court

Family named

James (son); Francis (son); John Wilkerson (son); Francis Wilkerson (son); Frances Wilkerson (daughter); Polly Wilkerson (daughter); Nancy Pickett (daughter); Margaret McDaniel (daughter); Elizabeth Wilkerson (daughter)

Executors

Francis Wilkerson (son); John Wilkerson

Witnesses

William Wilkerson; Robert G. Tinnen

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 7.
• Abstract: Ruth Herndon Shields, Abstracts of Wills Recorded in Orange County, North Carolina, 1800–1850 (1958), page 179.
• 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).