Orange County Indexed
Will of Thomas Thompson
Will Book C, page 70 · dated 17 March 1794 · proved February 1796
Thomas Thompson named his wife, two sons and grandson, devised land, and appointed Abraham sole executor.
- Kind of paper
- Will
- Testator
- Thomas Thompson (printed THOMAS THOMPSON), of Eno, Orange Co., N.C.
- Dated
- 17 March 1794
- Proved
- February 1796 court
- Family named
- Ann (wife); Samuel (son); Abraham (son); John Debow (grandson)
- Executor
- Abraham (son)
- Witnesses
- Jacob Lake; Wm. McMun
- Land
- 150 acres of land on which he now lives joining Maddon’s and Chamberlan’s lands; home tract on which I now live
- Also named
- Maddon (adjoining landowner); Chamberlan (adjoining landowner)
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 70.
- 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).
