Orange County Indexed
Will of Thomas Pettey
Will Book A, page 99 · dated 26 August 1766 · proved July 1769
Thomas Pettey named wife Mary, three sons and daughter Martha, devised land, and appointed Robert Marsh and James Younger executors.
- Kind of paper
- Will
- Testator
- Thomas Pettey (printed THOMAS PETTEY)
- Dated
- 26 August 1766
- Proved
- July 1769 court
- Family named
- Mary (wife); Thomas (son; seem to be under age); Reubin (son; seem to be under age); John (son; seem to be under age); Martha Pettey (daughter)
- Executors
- Robert Marsh; James Younger
- Guardian
- Robert Marsh (friend; if wife dies before children come of age)
- Witnesses
- James Stewart; Robert Carlile
- Land
- land on George Herndon's line
- Also named
- George Herndon
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 99.
- 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).
