Will of Drury (x) Jeffras

Drury Jeffras named wife Sylvia, five sons, five daughters, and grandchildren and appointed Andrew Jeffrass and Eaton Jeffrass executors.

Kind of paper

Will

Testator

Drury (x) Jeffras (printed DRURY (x) JEFFRAS)

Dated

14 March 1841

Proved

May 1841 court

A second reading

Mark Chilton’s index of the will books gives the testator as Drury Jeffreys. Check the will book to settle it.

Family named

Sylvia (wife); Andrew (son); Eaton (son); Stephen (son); Henry (son); Addison (son); Betsy (daughter); Sylvia (daughter); Partha (daughter); Tempy Corn (daughter); Polly Burnett (daughter); Willy Corn (grandson ?); Peggy Jeffrass (granddaughter)

Executors

Andrew Jeffrass; Eaton Jeffrass

Witnesses

Hugh Jeffrass; Charles Jeffrass

Reading note: Shields questions Willy Corn (grandson ?). Jeffras and Jeffrass spelling retained.

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 87.
• Abstract: Ruth Herndon Shields, Abstracts of Wills Recorded in Orange County, North Carolina, 1800–1850 (1958), page 190.
• 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).