Orange County Indexed
Will of Thomas Smothers
Will Book C, page 57 · dated 20 August 1778 · proved August 1795
Thomas Smothers named his wife and eight children and appointed his wife and Alex. Summers executors.
- Kind of paper
- Will
- Testator
- Thomas Smothers (printed THOMAS SMOTHERS)
- Dated
- 20 August 1778
- Proved
- August 1795 court
- A second reading
- Mark Chilton’s index of the will books gives the date as 20 August 1795. Check the will book to settle it.
- Family named
- Susannah (wife); Susanna (wife); William (son); John (son); James (son); Thomas (son); Sarah Smothers (daughter); Rebecca Sumner or Summer (daughter); Elizabeth Pickard (daughter); Mary Smothers (daughter)
- Executors
- Susanna (wife); Alex. Summers ?
- Witnesses
- John Daniely; Jonathan Clampit
Reading note: Source questions Alex. Summers ?; wife printed Susannah then Susanna.
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 57.
- 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).
