Images of Wills, Book A, 1760 to 1848
Albertson, Samuel | Alderman, David | Alderman, David Sr. | Alderman, John | Allen, Henry | Andrews, Abraham | Ashey, Dante | Atkinson, John | Barbrie, Peter | Bardin, John | Barns, William | Bass, Richard | Beck, William | Beek, William | Bell, Archibald | Beesley, Austin Bell, John | Beney, Jacob | Bennett, Thomas | Bennett, William | Best, Catharine | Best, John | Best, William | Bird, John | Bird, John | (2) Bizzell, James | Bizzell, Mary Bizzell, William | Blackbone, William | Blackman, Joseph | Blackmore, Harrell Bland, William | Blanton, Richard | Blount, Warren | Bowzer, Emanuel| Bowzer, Mary | Boyet, Moses | Boyt, Samuel | Boykin, Joseph | Branch, Archibald | Branch, Edelph | Brice, Joseph | Bright, William | Britton, Thomas | Broadwell, Adoriram | Brown, Edward | Brown, Jacob | Brown, John | Burch, Joseph | Bryan, Rigdon | Bryant, Jacob | Byrd, Robert | Camady, Patrick | Carill, John | Carleton, Thomas | Carr, James | Carr, John | Carr, Joseph | Carter, John | Cavenaugh, Silvester Chasen, Richard | Cherry, Willis Clark, Archibald | Clark, Dianna Cole, Robert | Connelly, Cullin Cook, John | Cook, John | Cottle, Robert | Crawford, John | Cummins, Thomas | Dail, Elizabeth | Daniel, Alexander | Davis, John | Davis, Rachel Dickson, Alexander | Dickson, Bernadick Dickson, James | Dickson, Lewis Dickson, Morris Dickson, Robert | Dickson, William | Dickson, William | (2) Dobson, Lewis Doumit, Alexander | Duacks, William | Duncan, Edmund Duncan, Isaac Dunkan, Jacob | Edwards, Matthew | Egill, Mikel | Ellison, Jesse | Erorguin, Jacque | Evans, James | Faison, Henry | Farrior, John | Farrior, Margaret | Farrior, Martha | Garrison, Ephraim | Gavin, Samuel | Gibbs, John Sr. | Gillispie, James | Glisson, Bryan Glisson, Jacob | Goff, John | Gore, John Sr. | Graddy, John | Grady, Alexander Sr. | Gray, John | Green, John | Green, Lott | Guince, Hugh | Gulley, William | Gurgrum, Eurias | Guy, Samuel | Guy, William | Hall, Sarah | Hall, Thomas | Hall, William | Hariot, Jesse | Harvall, William | Hauchey, Martin Herring, Alexander | Herring, Samuel | Herring, Stephen | Hicks, Thomas | Hill, John | Hix, Thankfull Hodges, Benjamin | Hodgison, Aron | Holar, Levis | Holder, Jeremiah | Holley, James | Hollingsworth, Elizabeth | Hollingsworth, Jacob | Holmes, George | Homes, Edward | Hooks, Thomas | Hooks, Whitmel | Hunter, Howel | Hunter, Isaac | Hunter, Nicholas | Hurst, William B. | Ingram, Abner | Ivey, John | James, James | James, Joseph | James, Rebecca | Jernigan, Thomas | John, Thomas | Johnson, Thomas | Johnson, Amos | Johnston, James | Johnston, Benjamin | Johnston, Hannah | Johnston, John | Johnston, Joseph | Jones, Jesse | Jones, John | Jones, Robert | Jones, Solomon Keatley, Jonathan | Kenady, Dunsey | Kenan, Elizabeth | Kenan, James | Kenan, Thomas | King, Henry | Knoles, John | Knoles, Robert | Kornegay, Abram | Kornegay, George | Kornegay, Luke| Kornegay, Mary | Land, Robert | Lane, Ruralee | Lanier, Jesse | Lanier, John | Lanier, Thomas | Lee, Josiah | Mairgroves, John | Mallard, George | Mallard, John | Mallard, Joseph | Mallard, William | Matchet, John | Matchet, Sarah | Mathews, James | Mathis, Edward | Maxwell, James | Maxwell, John | McCann, William | McCann, William | McCurdy, William | McGee, William | McGowen, William | McLendon, Jesse | McLendon, Jesse | Mercer, John | Merit, Joseph | Merrit, Absalom Middleton, Davidl | Middleton, Isaac Sr. Middleton, James | Middleton, James Jr. | Middleton, Susannah | Millard, Jerry | Miller, Sarah | Mills, Elizabeth | Molton, Abraham Molton, John | Molton, Tamer Morr, John | Murray, Arthur Murphy, Barbara Murphy, Timothy Murray, Betholmy Murray, James | Murray, James | (2) Neal, John | Sr. New, John | Newton, Isaac Newton, Mary Newton, Patrick | Newton, Sarah | Norman, Richard | Norment, Thomas | Norris, Isom | Norris, Jessy | Oats, Jethro | Olive, Francis | Outlaw, Edward | Outlaw, James | Parish, William | Parker, John | Parker, William | Pearce, Sarah | Pearsall, James | Pearsall, Joseph | Pegford, Timothy | Pettus, Samuel | Phillips, John | Picket, Dawson Pierce, Snodon Pomphrey, Silvanus Pope, Thomas | Powell, Patrick | Prowse, John | Quince, Joseph | Rhodes, Benjamin | Rhodes, Joseph | Thomas | Rhodes, Solomon Rogers, Fanny Rogers, John | Rogers, Stephen | Rogers, William | Rouse, George | Rouse, Phillip | Routledge, Thomas | Routledge, Thomas | Runnels, Shadrack | Scott, Joseph | Sholar, Solomon Shuffield, John | Sikes, Willis Sloan, Davidl | Sloan, Davidl | (2) Sloan, John | Sloan, Robert | Slocumb, Samuel | Smith, George | Smith, Roger Snell, James | Snow, William | Southerland, Robert | Stallings, John | Stallings, Meshack Stroud, Lutson Sullivan, Daniel Taylor, Catharine | Taylor, Jacob | Teachey, Davidl | Teachey, Jacob | Teachey, Timothy | Thally, Andrew | Thomas, Isaac | Thomas, William | Thigpen, John | Thomson, John | Turnamer, Cader | Tutle, Ann | Underhill, William | Wade, Joseph | Waller, James | Ward, John | Ward, Luke| Watkins, Lewis | Watterman, William | Webb, Samuel | Wells, Jacob | Weltz, Joseph | Weston, Abelson |Weston, Edward | Whitfield, John | Wilkins, John | Wilkinson, Margaret | Williams, Edward | Williams, Elizabeth | Williams, George | Williams, James | Williams, John | Williams, John | Williams, Richard | Williams, Robert | Williams, Shadrack | Williams, Stephen | Williams, Thomas | Wills, Jacob | Wilson, John Sr. | Witts, Elizabeth | Wood, Priscilla | Worsley, John | Worley, Ann | Wright, David | Wright, John | Wright, Robert | Young, Peter
Probate Records available to members of North Carolina Pioneers
Duplin County is rich with genealogy records. The first will book begins in 1760. If you are researching Wilmington, North Carolina, you should also take advantage of examining all of these last wills and testaments as there is much data about family members and places of origin. It is wise to view all of those surnames in your families because parents, grandparents, siblings and cousins also provide information will helps to complete the genealogy puzzle. Duplin County was formed in 1750 from New Hanover County and was named after Sir Thomas Hays, Lord Dupplin, a member of the Board of Trade and Plantations for the Crown during the 1740s. Its immigrants were Welsh, Scotch-Irish, French Huguenot, English and German Palatines. Kenansville is the county seat.
The Swiss to New Bern
Jacob Wells emigrated to America from Basel, Switzerland to America with the deGraffenreid family during the reign of Queen Anne, the last house of Stuart. In June of 1710, he embarked from New Castle, Holland along with other Swiss emigrants onboard a English ship owned by a Boston merchant. The vessel landed on the James River and from there, the passengers went to New Bern, North Carolina. The children of Jacob Wells settled on Rockfish Creek in Duplin County.
