Will of Isham (x) Thrift

Isham Thrift left lands to Mary, named fourteen children, and appointed Mary Thrift and David Thrift executors.

Kind of paper

Will

Testator

Isham (x) Thrift (printed ISHAM (x) THRIFT)

Dated

23 June 1812

Proved

Date not given

Family named

Mary (wife); Mary Thrift (wife); David Thrift (son); Elizabeth Snipes (All my children); Susannah Booker (All my children); Perry Thrift (All my children); Sally Thrift (All my children); Delila Petty (All my children); Peggy Thrift (All my children); William Thrift (All my children); David Thrift (All my children); Drury Thrift (All my children); Isham Thrift (All my children); Polly Thrift (All my children); Frances Thrift (All my children); Nancy Thrift (All my children); Levicy Thrift (All my children)

Executors

Mary Thrift (wife); David Thrift (son)

Witnesses

Bryant Strowd; P. Willis; Henry (x) Andrus

Land

land in Orange County deeded from Wm. Strowd, deceased; land in Chatham Co., N.C. deeded from Jesse Buckner on the N.Side of Haw River on Wilkerson Creek

Places

Orange County; Chatham Co., N.C.; N.Side of Haw River; Wilkerson Creek

Also named

Wm. Strowd (land conveyor; deceased); Jesse Buckner (land conveyor)

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 344.
• Abstract: Ruth Herndon Shields, Abstracts of Wills Recorded in Orange County, North Carolina, 1800–1850 (1958), page 51.
• 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).