Orange County Indexed
Will of Thomas Reading
Will Book D, page 591 · dated 8 July 1820 · proved February 1821
Thomas Reading named Mary and six children and appointed son John Reading sole executor.
- Kind of paper
- Will
- Testator
- Thomas Reading (printed THOMAS READING)
- Dated
- 8 July 1820
- Proved
- February 1821 court
- Family named
- Mary (wife); John Reading (son); John Reading (child); Stephen Reading (child); Martha Beever (child); Mary Whitaker (child); Elizabeth Horn (child); Thomas Reading (child)
- Executor
- John Reading (son)
- Witnesses
- John Redmon; Jones Cardin
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 591.
- Abstract: Ruth Herndon Shields, Abstracts of Wills Recorded in Orange County, North Carolina, 1800–1850 (1958), page 92.
- 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).
