Orange County Indexed
Will of Thomas Pratt
Will Book B, page 28 · dated December 1787
Thomas Pratt left money and goods to nephews, nieces and other beneficiaries; David Ray was executor.
- Kind of paper
- Will
- Testator
- Thomas Pratt (printed THOMAS PRATT)
- Dated
- December 1787
- Proved
- Date not given
- Family named
- James Pratt (nephew); George Pratt (nephew); Peggy Pratt (niece); Lucy Pratt (niece)
- Also left something
- James Grant (relationship, if any, not stated); David Ray (relationship, if any, not stated); John McWhitney (relationship, if any, not stated); Walter Alves (relationship, if any, not stated); Samuel Benton (relationship, if any, not stated); James Taylor (son of Frederick Taylor)
- Executor
- David Ray
- Witnesses
- John McWhitney; Mary (x) Pratt
- Money and goods
- £ 100 hard money; Gilt Stock Buckle; 1pr Shoe Buckles; £ 25 paper money
- Also named
- Frederick Taylor
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 B, page 28.
- 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).
