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Estate account: Thomas Brooks, Elizabeth Brooks

May 1810 · Orange County Court of Pleas and Quarter Sessions

Elizabeth Brooks petitioned for solemn probate of Thomas Brooks’s alleged will; interested parties were summoned, with newspaper notice ordered for Benjamin Howell.

Kind of business
Estate account
Court
May 1810 term
People
Other dates
next Term; three weeks

Names and places are given as the source writes them. This record has not been checked against the original minute book.

Where to find it

  • Minute book 8, page 72
  • Transcribed by Mark Chilton, Orange County Register of Deeds: his transcription of the May 1810 term
  • Original: State Archives of North Carolina, Orange County court minutes (CR.073.301).
  • Microfilm at the Orange County Public Library, Wall Local History Collection: reel 30004, “County Court Minutes, 1805–1814” (State Archives film).
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