Will of Frances Thompson

Frances Thompson divided her inherited estate between her daughter and minor son and appointed her brothers executors.

Kind of paper

Will

Testator

Frances Thompson (printed FRANCES THOMPSON)

Dated

17 April 1799

Proved

August 1799 court

In the court minutes

• Estate account, 28 August 1800

Family named

Anderson (son; under age); Margaret (daughter); Benjamin Thompson (my father); Sarah Thompson (my mother); Robert (brother); Richard Thompson (brother)

Executors

Robert (brother); Richard Thompson (brother)

Witnesses

Samuel Thompson; Caleb Harvey

Reading note: Executors surname printed once after Richard; retained as printed.

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 146.
• 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).