Orange County Indexed
Will of Thomas (x) Nichols
Will Book E, page 153 · dated 16 February 1828 · proved February 1828
Thomas Nichols left his property and enslaved people to wife Hannah, then to his unnamed brothers and sisters.
- Kind of paper
- Will
- Testator
- Thomas (x) Nichols (printed THOMAS (x) NICHOLS)
- Dated
- 16 February 1828
- Proved
- February 1828 court
- Family named
- Hannah (wife)
- Witnesses
- John Bane; Tho. Jef. Faddis
- Enslaved people not named
- Enslaved people
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 153.
- Abstract: Ruth Herndon Shields, Abstracts of Wills Recorded in Orange County, North Carolina, 1800–1850 (1958), page 127.
- 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).
