Orange County Indexed
Will of Thomas (x) Mortise
Will Book C, page 1 · dated 3 February 1794 · proved May 1794
Thomas Mortise named his wife and unnamed daughter.
- Kind of paper
- Will
- Testator
- Thomas (x) Mortise (printed THOMAS (x) MORTISE)
- Dated
- 3 February 1794
- Proved
- May 1794 court
- Family named
- Mary Mortise (wife)
- Witnesses
- John Adams; Joseph Hastings
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 C, page 1.
- 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 80002, “Record of Wills, 1794–1822, Vols. C, D” (State Archives film).
