Person

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Indexes to Wills and Estates

  • 1792 to 1797
  • 1801 to 1805

Tax Returns by District

1794

  • Lawson District
  • St. James District
  • St. Lawrence District

1801

  • Capt. St. Lawrence
  • Capt. St. Luke
  • James District

1802

  • Capt. Gabriel Gunn
  • Capt. Lawson
  • Nash District

1803

  • Capt. Daniels
  • Capt. Elijah Daniels
  • Capt. Day
  • Capt. Gunn
  • Capt. Lawson
  • Capt. Witherson

1804

  • Capt. Atkinson
  • Capt. Henry Day
  • Capt. Daniels
  • Capt. Jones
  • Capt. William Lee
  • Capt. Long
  • Capt. Malery
  • Capt. Sargent

1805

  • Capt. Sargent
  • Capt. Morrow
  • Capt. Street

1806

  • Capt. Atkinson
  • Capt. Day
  • Capt. Hubbard
  • Capt. Malone
  • Capt. Paine
  • Capt. Sargent
  • Capt. Street

Names of Families in Person County Wills, Estates, Inventories, Administrations, Tax Digests

Person County was the first part of Edgecombe County in 1746. Later it was part of Granville, Orange, and Caswell Counties. Person County was named after Brigadier General Thomas Person, a Revolutionary War patriot, who was later a trustee of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. The county was settled primarily during the 17th century by persons from Scotland, Ireland, England, France (Huguenots), and persons of German origin. Another famous person, Lieutenant Colonel Stephen Moore, Deputy Quartermaster General of the Hillsborough district, also served during the Revolutionary War as the commander of the Person County troops during the Battle of Camden; later taken prisoner and put onboard the prison ship Torbay. His home known as Mt. Tirzah was built ca 1778 and remains upon its original site.

Images of Person County Wills and Estates 1792 to 1797

Atkinson, John | Barnett, Hugh | Black, Thomas | Cochran, James | Cole, Thomas | Coleman, Elizabeth | Coleman,Elizabeth, estate sale | Cooper, Elizabeth | Davey, Gabriel | Davy, Jamesl | Douglass, Benjamin | Douglass, John | Duncan, Mary, Estate Sale | Duncan, William | Glenn, William | Hall, John | Hamlet, James | Jameson, William | Lawrence, Phillip | Lewis, Edmund | McNeil, John | Moore, Stephen | Morgan, Phillip | O.Neal, John | Paine, John | Parks, JOseph | Rutherford, William | Southard, George | Talbert, John | Taylor, Charles | Thomas, Thomas | Van Hook, Daniel | Walker, Lyles | Warren, Mary | Williams, Thomas

Images of Person County Wills and Estates 1797 to 1801

Atkinson, Edward Bateman, John | Black, George | Black, John | Burton, Charles | Chambers, William | Clayton, Daniel | Cooper, John | Davy, Jamesl | Dickins, Robert | Dickins, William | Dunwoody, John | Dunwoody, Rachel Eubanks, George | Gatsby, William | Green, Henry | Harralson, William | Harrison, Sarah | Hatcher, Benjamin | Holloway, John | Jones, Richard | Lewis, Jamesl | McNeil, John | McNeil, Sarah | McNeil, William | Miller, Jeremiah Moore, Stephen | Person, Benjamin | Pulliam, Jamesl | Rogers, John | Sanders, Adam | Smith, Samuel | Stone, Hezekiah | Taylor, Charles | Vanhook, Lawrence | Warren, Jeremiah | Wilson, John

Images of Person County Wills and Estates 1801 to 1805

Barnett, Hugh | Black, Michael | Chambers, Elizabeth | Dickins, Robert | Dickson, Isaiah | Dukes, Robert | Fuller, John | Garrett, Joseph | Galloway, John | Green, Major | Greensborough, William | Hale, Joseph | Hall, Joseph | Harris, Samuel | Harrison, Benjamin | Hatcher, Benjamin | Humphries, John | Jefferies, Susannah | Lee, William | Lewis, Edmund | Lewis, Hiram | McFarland, John | McNeil, John | McMurray, Samuel | Moore, Charles | Moore, Stephen | Paine, Susanne | Polack, Robert | Rogers, John | Sanders, Margarite | Sanders, Richard | Satterfield, John | Smith, Samuel | Standfield, Thomas | Stuart, Jamesl | Trickey, Giles | Van Hook, Isaac | Warren, Jamesl | Wilkinson, Thomas | Williams, Gary

Images of Person County Wills and Estates 1805 to 1807

Atkinson, Edward | Bailey, Nancy | Bennet, Sarah | Black, Robert | Cole, Isaiah | Cooks, David | Cunningham, James | Davis, Abraham | Davis, Abraham, inventory of estate | Dickson, Joshua | Dickson, Nancy | Donovan, Abraham | Fowler, Benjamin | Gatsby, Rachel | Gold, JOseph | Hall, Phillip | Haralson, Paul Hatcher, Benjamin | Jones, Ambrose | Lawrence, John | McDaniel, William | McFarland, John | McFarland, Walter | Minchew, Judith | Moore, Stephen | Paine, Susannah | Price, Susannah | Putnam, James | Rogers, John | Rose, Duncan | Satterfield, John | Southard, John | Standfield, Jamesl | Stanfield, William | Stuart, Marcus | Van Hook, David | Winston, Samuel