Will of Samuel Thompson

Samuel Thompson listed accounts, left twenty pounds to son Joshua, son of Mary Paynes, and gave Samuel Bartly a child’s share.

Kind of paper

Will

Testator

Samuel Thompson, of the County of Orange and State of North Carolina

Dated

21 July 1800

Proved

May 1804 court

Family named

Joshua Thompson (my son); Joshua (son Joshua; son of Mary Paynes)

Also left something

Samuel Bartly (a child's part)

Witness

Thomas Bradshaw ?

Money and goods

Henry O'Daniel Thirty Pounds Dr; Joshua Thompson Eighteen Pounds Dr; Samuel Thompson Six Pounds Dr; Joshua Twenty Pounds

Also named

Henry O'Daniel (Just Account & legs (legacies ?); Dr (debtor ?)); Joshua Thompson (Just Account & legs (legacies ?); Dr (debtor ?)); Samuel Thompson (Just Account & legs (legacies ?); Dr (debtor ?)); Mary Paynes (mother of son Joshua)

Reading note: Continues PDF23; Just Account & legs (legacies ?) and Dr (debtor ?) ambiguous in source. Witness Thomas Bradshaw ? uncertain. Names listed with shared surnames were 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 127.
• Abstract: Ruth Herndon Shields, Abstracts of Wills Recorded in Orange County, North Carolina, 1800–1850 (1958), page 20.
• 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).