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Orange County Indexed

Will of Thomas Carmichael

Will Book D, page 559 · dated 15 February 1816 · proved May 1819

Thomas Carmichael named Mary, two sons and three daughters and appointed John Henry Carmichael executor.

Kind of paper
Will
Testator
Thomas Carmichael (printed THOMAS CARMICHAEL)
Dated
15 February 1816
Proved
May 1819 court
Family named
Mary (wife); John Henry Carmichael (son); Archibald Carmichael (son); Margaret Street (daughter); Nancy Smith (daughter); Jane Isley (daughter)
Executor
John Henry Carmichael (son)
Witnesses
John McMullan; Vance Laffatee

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 559.
  • Abstract: Ruth Herndon Shields, Abstracts of Wills Recorded in Orange County, North Carolina, 1800–1850 (1958), page 86.
  • 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).
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