Cabarrus County Wills and Estates

Cabarrus county was formed from Mecklenburg County in 1792, and was named after Stephen Cabarrus of Chowan County, Speaker of the North Carolina House of Commons. Conrad Reed found gold here in 1799 while playing in Little Meadow Creek on the old Reed farm. His find weighed a hefty 17 pounds! John Reed or Johannes Rieth as he was known in Staatsarchiv at Marburg, Germany was one of thousands of Hessian soldiers transported over by British troops to fight against rebellious colonists during the Revolutionary War. John Reed deserted, as did many other Hessians, and migrated from Georgia to North Carolina, where he settled in an ethnic German community sometime around 1787. Reed developed placer mining, then underground mining on his property and became wealthy, his mine being known as the Reed Gold Mine. The Reed Gold Mine was designated as a National Historic Landmark. The names of the testators in the last will and testaments below appear to be of German origin, undoubtably descendants of the Hessian soldiers.

Transcripts of Cabarrus County Wills 1796 to 1822

Abendshein, Catherina

Abendshein, Christian

Abendshein, Rinehold

Dayvault, Jacob

Hadley, James

Hadley, Joshua

Hagler, John

Hall, John

Hall, Morgan

Harky, George

Harris, Charles, Dr.

Harris, Elizabeth

Harris, Ephraim

Harris, James

Harris, Robert Sr.

Harris, Robert

Harris, William

Hartman, George

Hill, Green

Hope, Robert

Horlacher, Christopher.

Houston, Archibald

Houston, John

Houston, Margaret

William

Hudson, Fanny

Hudson, Seth.

Huie, Samuel

Marchadant, John.

McCaleb, James

McClellan, Thomas

McCommon, Charles

McCree, Hugh

McMahan, John

McRee, Richard

McCree, William

McEwen, Elizabeth

McFaddon, Thomas.

McGinnis, Charles

McGraw, Benjamin

McGraw, James

McKinley, Charles

McKinley, John

McLarty, Archibald

McMakin, James

McRee, David

McMurrey, Robert

Mealor, Peter

Melchor, John

Meissenheimer, Jacob

Misenheimer, Abraham

Misenheimer, George Sr.

Misenheimer, Jacob.

Mitchler, Matthias

Morris, Griffith

Morris, Griffith

Morris, Moses

Morris, Samuel

Morris, Nancy

Morris, Nancy

Morton,, Samuel

Phifer, George

Query, Alexander

Strickler, Daniel

Wagoner, Will

Walcher, Adam

Walker, Andrew

Wallace, Aaron

Wallace, James

Wallace, John

Wallace, William

Watson, Thomas

Welch, Elizabeth

Wessner, George

White, Archibald

White, David

White, Jean

White, John

White, John

White, Margaret

White, Mary

White, Samuel

White, William

Wilhelm, George

Wilie, Mary

Wiser, Michael

Wiser, Phillip

Wynkaugh, Michael

Yonge, Catherine

Young, Joseph

Young, William