Orange County Indexed
Will of Thomas Shelton
Will Book D, page 71 · dated 12 April 1802 · proved August 1802
Thomas Shelton left his estate to his wife, named ten children, distributed money and goods, and appointed his wife sole executrix.
- Kind of paper
- Will
- Testator
- Thomas Shelton (printed THOMAS SHELTON)
- Dated
- 12 April 1802
- Proved
- August 1802 court
- Family named
- Catherine (wife); James Shelton (son); Buckner (son); Frederick (son); Jeremiah (son); Thomas Shelton (son); John Shelton (son); Edmund Shelton (son); Mary Collar (daughter); Rhoda Shelton (daughter); Elizabeth Shelton (daughter)
- Executor
- Catherine (wife)
- Witness
- Isaac Gattis
- Money and goods
- 5 shillings each; 5 sh.; feather bed; horse worth $40; $40
Reading note: Sons surname printed only after Thomas; retained as printed.
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 71.
- Abstract: Ruth Herndon Shields, Abstracts of Wills Recorded in Orange County, North Carolina, 1800–1850 (1958), page 10.
- 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).
