Orange County Indexed
Will of Thomas Lewis
Will Book D, page 151 · dated 25 February 1805 · proved May 1805
Thomas Lewis named wife Jane, sons, daughters, and son-in-law Nicholas Durning; sons Fielding and Henry Lewis, John Rhodes, and Jane were executors.
- Kind of paper
- Will
- Testator
- Thomas Lewis (printed THOMAS LEWIS)
- Dated
- 25 February 1805
- Proved
- May 1805 court
- Family named
- Jane (wife); William (son); Fielding (son); Robert (son); Henry (son); John (son); Henry Lewis (my two sons); Frances (daughter); Elizabeth (daughter); Mary (daughter); Nicholas Durning (son-in-law)
- Executors
- Fielding (my two sons); Henry Lewis (my two sons); John Rhodes (of Benjamin); Jane (my loving wife)
- Witnesses
- John Rhodes; Ben. Rhodos
- Land
- William land on east side of Henry Lewis where he now lives; Fielding land where I now live
- Also named
- Henry Lewis (land on east side of); Benjamin (John Rhodes of Benjamin)
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 151.
- Abstract: Ruth Herndon Shields, Abstracts of Wills Recorded in Orange County, North Carolina, 1800–1850 (1958), page 24.
- 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).
