Will of Samuel Thompson

Samuel Thompson allocated plantation and Tennessee land among Rebeckah and children; Rebeckah, Thomas Thompson and Joel Cloud were executors.

Kind of paper

Will

Testator

Samuel Thompson (printed SAMUEL THOMPSON)

Dated

12 March 1821

Proved

May 1821 court

Family named

Rebeckah (wife); John B. (son); Robert (son); Richard T. (son); Ralph (son); Samuel (son); Sally (my daughter); Betsy (three youngest daughters; all minors); Rebeckah (three youngest daughters; all minors); Patsy (three youngest daughters; all minors)

Executors

Rebeckah (wife); Thomas Thompson; Joel Cloud

Witnesses

Joseph Anderson; David W. Anderson

Land

plantation; land in Tennessee

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 599.
• Abstract: Ruth Herndon Shields, Abstracts of Wills Recorded in Orange County, North Carolina, 1800–1850 (1958), page 94.
• 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).