Orange County Indexed
Will of Thomas Lynch
Will Book D, page 438 · dated 18 April 1815 · proved August 1815
Thomas Lynch left acreage to brothers Jesse and Moses and appointed Moses executor.
- Kind of paper
- Will
- Testator
- Thomas Lynch (printed THOMAS LYNCH)
- Dated
- 18 April 1815
- Proved
- August 1815 court
- Family named
- Jesse Lynch (brother); Moses Lynch (brother)
- Executor
- Moses Lynch (brother)
- Witness
- Thomas Reeves
- Land
- 300 acres joining William Paisley, James Forrest and others; balance of 640 acre grant
- Also named
- William Paisley (adjoining owner); James Forrest (adjoining owner)
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 438.
- Abstract: Ruth Herndon Shields, Abstracts of Wills Recorded in Orange County, North Carolina, 1800–1850 (1958), page 64.
- 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).
