Orange County Indexed
Will of Jesse Thomas
Will Book E, page 139 · dated 17 August 1826 · proved May 1827
Jesse Thomas provided for his son, daughters, grandchildren, and Elenor Ripper and appointed Nehemiah Thomas executor.
- Kind of paper
- Will
- Testator
- Jesse Thomas (printed JESSE THOMAS)
- Dated
- 17 August 1826
- Proved
- May 1827 court
- Family named
- Nehemiah Thomas (son); Jane Donnerly (daughter); Caty Thomas (daughter); Mary Hubbert (daughter); Thomas Thomas (grandson); Nancy (grandchild; surnames not stated); Caty (grandchild; surnames not stated)
- Also left something
- Elenor Ripper
- Executor
- Nehemiah Thomas
- Witnesses
- Robert Lackey; John (x) Underwood
- Money and goods
- case of drawers
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 E, page 139.
- Abstract: Ruth Herndon Shields, Abstracts of Wills Recorded in Orange County, North Carolina, 1800–1850 (1958), page 124.
- 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 80003, “Record of Wills, 1822–1851, Vols. E, F” (State Archives film).
