Orange County Indexed
Will of Owen Thomas
Will Book A, page 95 · dated 17 March 1769 · proved April 1769
Owen Thomas named wife Mary, twelve children and brother James Thomas; John Gray and Thomas Cate were executors.
- Kind of paper
- Will
- Testator
- Owen Thomas (printed OWEN THOMAS)
- Dated
- 17 March 1769
- Proved
- April 1769 court
- Family named
- Mary (wife); William (son); James (son); George (son); Michal (son); Mary Hard (or Hart) (daughter); Ann Wilks (daughter); Hester (six small children); Joana (six small children); Lewis (six small children); Jonathan (six small children); John (six small children); Elizabeth (six small children); James Thomas (brother; as long as he lives with them)
- Executors
- John Gray; Thomas Cate (son of Robert)
- Witnesses
- John Baskett; Frederick Williams
- Also named
- Robert
Reading note: Continues on PDF page 23. Daughter Mary Hard (or Hart) uncertain; six small children recorded as child without inferring sex.
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 95.
- 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).
