Orange County Indexed
Will of Thomas Howard, Sr.
Will Book D, page 577 · dated 25 July 1815 · proved May 1820
Thomas Howard named Elizabeth, sons and daughters and appointed Elizabeth and son Richard executors.
- Kind of paper
- Will
- Testator
- Thomas Howard, Sr. (printed THOMAS HOWARD, SR.)
- Dated
- 25 July 1815
- Proved
- May 1820 court
- Family named
- Elizabeth (wife); James Howard (son); John Howard (son); Thomas Howard (son); Richard Howard (son); Richard (son); Henrietta (daughter; unmarried); Betsy Watson (daughter)
- Executors
- Elizabeth (wife); Richard (son)
- Witnesses
- Thomas Scott; Stephen Glass
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 577.
- Abstract: Ruth Herndon Shields, Abstracts of Wills Recorded in Orange County, North Carolina, 1800–1850 (1958), page 90.
- 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).
