Will of Thomas (x) Aspen

Thomas Aspen provided payments to wife Sarah, devised his plantation to William Paschall for life and then Thomas, and appointed two friends executors.

Kind of paper

Will

Testator

Thomas (x) Aspen (printed THOMAS (x) ASPEN)

Dated

19 March 1789

Proved

1790 (no day or month given)

Family named

Sarah (wife)

Also left something

William Paschall (Relationship, if any, not stated; 2 pounds a year; life estate); Thomas (William Paschall's son); Dilly South (Relationship, if any, not stated); Gemima South (Relationship, if any, not stated)

Executors

John Armstrong (Trusty friends); John Woods (Trusty friends)

Witnesses

Jno. Armstrong; Jno. Allison

Land

my plantation

Money and goods

3 pounds a year; 2 pounds a year

Also named

Benjamin South (Relationship, if any, not stated; to pay Sarah 3 pounds a year)

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 82.
• 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).