Orange County Indexed
Will of Thomas (x) Wood
Will Book C, page 110 · dated 23 May 1786 · proved February 1800
Thomas Wood named his wife, gave nine children one shilling each, left the remainder to two sons, and appointed those sons executors.
- Kind of paper
- Will
- Testator
- Thomas (x) Wood (printed THOMAS (x) WOOD), of Eno River.
- Dated
- 23 May 1786
- Proved
- February 1800 court
- In the court minutes
- Family named
- Mary (wife); Edward Wood (son); William Wood (son); Blayton Wood (son); Henry Wood (son); James Wood (son); Joseph Wood (son); James (son); Joseph (son); Lydia Good (daughter); Sarah Forrest (daughter); Meley Gwin (daughter); Theaney Wallace (daughter); Mary Woods (daughter); Elizabeth Acory (daughter)
- Executors
- James (son); Joseph (son)
- Witnesses
- James Alston; Elias Turner; Frederick Geer
- Money and goods
- one shilling each
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 110.
- 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).
