Will of Abraham I. (x) Whitaker

Abraham I. Whitaker named wife Martha, sons, and daughters; John Cabe and Henry Bunch were executors.

Kind of paper

Will

Testator

Abraham I. (x) Whitaker (printed ABRAHAM I. (x) WHITAKER)

Dated

10 December 1803

Proved

Date not given

Family named

Martha (wife); William (son); Abram Whitaker (son); Jacob (son); James Whitaker (youngest son); Joana Holliway (daughter); Hannah Barbee (daughter); Elizabeth Riley (daughter); Mary Riley (daughter); Isaac Whitaker (sons and daughters)

Executors

John Cabe; Henry Bunch

Witnesses

Henry Bunch; John (x) Morris

Land

land bounded by John Redmond's Cardin's & Jacob Allen's lands; land where John Poteet formerly lived now belonging to Thomas Holloway

Also named

John Redmond (land boundary); Cardin (land boundary); Jacob Allen (land boundary); John Poteet (formerly lived on land); Thomas Holloway (land now belonging to)

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

• The original is in the State Archives of North Carolina; it was never recorded in the Orange County will books.
• Abstract: Ruth Herndon Shields, Abstracts of Wills Recorded in Orange County, North Carolina, 1800–1850 (1958), page 220.