Orange County Indexed
Will of Amos (x) Thomson or Thompson
Will Book A, page 257 · dated 20 April 1781 · proved August 1782
Amos Thomson named wife Martha, son Littlebury Thomson and brother Charles Thomson, left Virginia land, and appointed four executors.
- Kind of paper
- Will
- Testator
- Amos (x) Thomson or Thompson (printed AMOS (x) THOMSON or THOMPSON)
- Dated
- 20 April 1781
- Proved
- August 1782 court
- In the court minutes
- Family named
- Martha (wife); Littlebury Thomson (son); Charles Thomson (brother)
- Executors
- Lewis Kirk; Richard Cate; Jesse Roper; Charles Thomson (brother)
- Witnesses
- Hen. Hancock; Robert Peebles; Buckner (x) Floyd; Benjamin Tarver
- Land
- all my Land in Donwoody County, Va.
- Places
- Donwoody County, Va.
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
- Orange County Will Book A, page 257.
- Abstract: Ruth Herndon Shields, Abstracts of Wills Recorded 1752 through 1800 in Orange County, North Carolina, Will Books A, B and C (Davie Poplar Chapter NSDAR, revised edition 1966).
- Also listed in Mark Chilton, “Wills Recorded in Orange County, NC 1756–1893” (Wandering through the NC Piedmont, 2019), an index of the will books with references to the court minutes.
- Microfilm at the Orange County Public Library, Wall Local History Collection: reel 80001, “Record of Wills, 1752–1795, Vols. A, B” (State Archives film).
