Orange County Indexed
Will of Joseph Armstrong
Will Book F, page 76 · dated 23 May 1839 · proved November 1840
Joseph Armstrong left property and land-sale rights to wife Peggy, devised land and enslaved people, and named daughters and father William Armstrong.
- Kind of paper
- Will
- Testator
- Joseph Armstrong (printed JOSEPH ARMSTRONG)
- Dated
- 23 May 1839
- Proved
- November 1840 court
- Family named
- Peggy (wife); Mary Ann Parker (daughter); Parthenia Leathers (daughter); Nancy Coggin (daughter); William Armstrong (his father)
- Executors
- Jesse P. Parker; George T. Coggin; John B.Leathers
- Witnesses
- Andrew Gray; S.C.M. Gray; Wm. J. Gray
- Enslaved people not named
- Many enslaved people
- Land
- Jonathan Watson lands; many pieces of land
- Money and goods
- settee now in the possession of James B. Leathers
- Also named
- James B. Leathers; Jonathan Watson
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 76.
- 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).
