Orange County Indexed
Will of Samuel Thompson
Will Book E, pages 195–200 · dated 6 January 1813 · proved August 1829
Samuel Thompson provided for his wife, son, daughters, and grandsons and appointed Isabell and William Norwood executors.
- Kind of paper
- Will
- Testator
- Samuel Thompson (printed SAMUEL THOMPSON)
- Dated
- 6 January 1813
- Proved
- August 1829 court
- Family named
- Isabell (wife); Richard Thompson (son); Nelly Barton (daughter, wife of John Barton); Frances (daughter; unmarried); Hannah (daughter; unmarried); Phoebe (daughter; unmarried); Samuel (his son); Stephen Barton (grandson son of Nelly Barton); John Barton
- Executors
- Isabell (wife); William Norwood
- Witnesses
- David Yarborough; James Child
- Land
- Kennedy's place adjoining lands of Wm. Strayhorn; 200 acres
- Also named
- Wm. Strayhorn
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, pages 195–200.
- Abstract: Ruth Herndon Shields, Abstracts of Wills Recorded in Orange County, North Carolina, 1800–1850 (1958), page 133.
- 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).
