Orange County Indexed
Will of William Morton
Will Book F, page 72 · dated 26 May 1840 · proved November 1840
William Morton named wife Sarah, sons, daughter Martha, and deceased daughter Mary’s husband Joseph Gillam and appointed Benjamin Morton executor.
- Kind of paper
- Will
- Testator
- William Morton (printed WILLIAM MORTON)
- Dated
- 26 May 1840
- Proved
- November 1840 court
- Family named
- Sarah (wife); Benjamin F. Morton (son); Jacob Morton (son); Henry H. (son; under 21); Martha Morton (daughter); Mary (daughter; deceased); Joseph Gillam (husband of daughter Mary deceased)
- Executor
- Benjamin F. Morton (son)
- Witnesses
- James Hicks; Lemuel W. Simpson
- Money and goods
- $5
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 72.
- Abstract: Ruth Herndon Shields, Abstracts of Wills Recorded in Orange County, North Carolina, 1800–1850 (1958), page 189.
- 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).
