Orange County Indexed
Will of Thomas Cate
Will Book D, page 490 · dated 2 April 1812 · proved August 1816
Thomas Cate named Sarah and eleven children and left acreage to sons.
- Kind of paper
- Will
- Testator
- Thomas Cate (printed THOMAS CATE)
- Dated
- 2 April 1812
- Proved
- August 1816 court
- In the court minutes
- Family named
- Sarah Cate (wife); Moses (son); John (son); Ephriam (son); Thomas (son); Moses Cate (my eleven children); John Cate (my eleven children); Fanny Sykes (my eleven children); Martha Moore (my eleven children); Winney Sykes (my eleven children); Milly Roach (my eleven children); Huldah Cate (my eleven children); Tabitha Smith (my eleven children); Elizabeth Cate (my eleven children); Thomas Cate (my eleven children); Ephriam Cate (my eleven children)
- Witnesses
- Barnard Cate; Jean (x) Cate
- Land
- 150 acres where he now lives; 100 acres whereon he did dwell; 100 acres whereon I now dwell
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 490.
- Abstract: Ruth Herndon Shields, Abstracts of Wills Recorded in Orange County, North Carolina, 1800–1850 (1958), page 73.
- 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).
