Orange County Indexed
Will of Hugh (x) Sinon
Will Book A, page 49 · dated 1 June 1766 · proved November 1766
Hugh Sinon distributed land and property, left enslaved Sarah to Thomas Lindsey Sr. and Ruth, and provided for unnamed brothers or brothers-in-law arriving from Ireland.
- Kind of paper
- Will
- Testator
- Hugh (x) Sinon (printed HUGH (x) SINON)
- Dated
- 1 June 1766
- Proved
- November 1766 court
- A second reading
- Mark Chilton’s index of the will books gives the testator as Hugh Linon. Check the will book to settle it.
- Family named
- Ruth (wife of Thomas Lindsey, Sr.)
- Also left something
- Thomas Lindsey, Jr. (no relationships to heirs given); William Welsh (no relationships to heirs given); Thomas Lindsey, Sr. (no relationships to heirs given); Ruth (no relationships to heirs given); William Lindsey (son of James Lindsey); Daniel McCavoy (no relationships to heirs given); Owen Dowd (?) (no relationships to heirs given); Samuel Stuart (no relationships to heirs given)
- Executors
- Samuel Stuart (my friends); William Lindsey (my friends)
- Witnesses
- Michael (X) Wufner (?); Thomas Lindsey, Sr.
- Enslaved people named
- Sarah (to Thomas Lindsey, Sr. and his wife Ruth)
- In the records of enslaved people
- Sarah (this paper)
- Land
- 525 acres on Pine Hill Creek; 125 acres, same location
- Places
- Pine Hill Creek; Ireland
- Also named
- James Lindsey
Reading note: Owen Dowd (?) and Michael (X) Wufner (?) uncertain in source; relationships to heirs not given.
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 49.
- 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).
