Orange County Indexed
Will of Thomas Durham
Will Book D, page 103 · dated 22 May 1803 · proved August 1803
Thomas Durham named wife Lucey, daughters and sons; friends William Durham and Thomas Cate were executors.
- Kind of paper
- Will
- Testator
- Thomas Durham (printed THOMAS DURHAM)
- Dated
- 22 May 1803
- Proved
- August 1803 court
- In the court minutes
- Family named
- Lucey ? Durham (wife); Aron (son); John (son); Thomas (son); Iley I. (son); Ezra Durham (son); Elizabeth Durham (daughter); Rebecca Durham (daughter); Susey ? Durham (daughter)
- Executors
- William Durham (friends); Thomas Cate (friends)
- Witnesses
- Lysias Durham; William Hopson
Reading note: Lucey ? Durham and Susey ? Durham uncertain as printed. Shared surname not expanded.
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 D, page 103.
- Abstract: Ruth Herndon Shields, Abstracts of Wills Recorded in Orange County, North Carolina, 1800–1850 (1958), page 16.
- 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).
