Orange County Indexed
Will of James Thompson
Will Book D, page 335 · dated 30 March 1812 · proved May 1812
James Thompson named Elizabeth, two sons and daughter Sarah and left the family Bible to Levi; friends were executors.
- Kind of paper
- Will
- Testator
- James Thompson (printed JAMES THOMPSON)
- Dated
- 30 March 1812
- Proved
- May 1812 court
- Family named
- Elizabeth (wife); Levi (son); John Thompson (son); Sarah Woody (daughter)
- Executors
- John Woody (beloved friends; sons of James Woody); Samuel Woody (beloved friends; sons of James Woody)
- Witnesses
- John Whitted; Joshua Woody
- Money and goods
- family Bible
- Also named
- James Woody (father of executors)
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 335.
- Abstract: Ruth Herndon Shields, Abstracts of Wills Recorded in Orange County, North Carolina, 1800–1850 (1958), page 50.
- 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).
