Orange County Indexed
Will of Thomas Searles
Will Book C, page 91 · dated 1793 · proved November 1796
Thomas Searles provided for his wife and eight children, devised land, and appointed sons and a son-in-law executors.
- Kind of paper
- Will
- Testator
- Thomas Searles (printed THOMAS SEARLES)
- Dated
- 1793
- Proved
- November 1796 court
- In the court minutes
- Family named
- Coventon Searles (son); Henry (son); Ephriam (son); Francis (son); Edward Searles (son); Francis Searles (son); Winney Searles (daughter); Betty Searles (daughter); Peggy Cook (daughter); Joseph Searles (son-in-law)
- Executors
- Henry (son); Francis Searles (son); Joseph Searles (son-in-law)
- Witnesses
- Dan Green; Bartholomew (x) Stovall; Othniel (x) Farmer
- Land
- 100 acres lying in Wake Co., N.C. where he now lives; 100 acres in Orange joining George Herndon; land in Orange; 100 acres in Orange joining Joseph Clark
- Places
- Wake Co., N.C.; Orange
- Also named
- George Herndon (adjoining landowner); Joseph Clark (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 91.
- 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).
