Orange County Indexed
Will of Thomas Burke
Will Book A, page 283 · dated 14 November 1783 · proved April 1784
Thomas Burke named his wife and underage daughter Mary, noted a plantation balance owed Robert Little, and appointed Willie Jones and James Hogg executors.
- Kind of paper
- Will
- Testator
- Thomas Burke (printed THOMAS BURKE)
- Dated
- 14 November 1783
- Proved
- April 1784 court
- In the court minutes
- Family named
- J ..?.. (wife); Mary (daughter; under 21 years of age)
- Executors
- Willie Jones; James Hogg
- Witnesses
- Jno. Williams; Alfred Moore
- Land
- a plantation
- Also named
- Robert Little; William Wylie
Reading note: Wife printed J ..?.., incomplete name.
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 283.
- 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).
