Skip to content

Orange County Indexed

Will of Thomas Rountree

Will Book D, page 580 · dated 28 July 1820 · proved August 1820

Thomas Rountree named Victory and gave a rifle to Neil Cate; Victory was executrix.

Kind of paper
Will
Testator
Thomas Rountree (printed THOMAS ROUNTREE)
Dated
28 July 1820
Proved
August 1820 court
Family named
Victory (wife)
Also left something
Neil (?) Cate
Executor
Victory (wife)
Witness
Wm. Armstrong
Money and goods
a rifle

Reading note: Neil (?) Cate questioned.

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 580.
  • 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).
Two mice reading back to back against a leaf, with the hand-lettered words Friends of the Orange County Public Library
Illustration by Caldecott Medalist Matthew Cordell, gifted to the Friends 2026