Orange County Indexed
Will of Thomas or Joseph (x) Laycock, Sr.
Will Book E, page 204 · dated 19 October 1829 · proved November 1829
Thomas or Joseph Laycock left land to sons William and Joseph, named six daughters, and left wife Rosea one dollar.
- Kind of paper
- Will
- Testator
- Thomas or Joseph (x) Laycock, Sr. (printed THOMAS or JOSEPH (x) LAYCOCK, SR.)
- Dated
- 19 October 1829
- Proved
- November 1829 court
- Family named
- Rosea (wife); William (son); Joseph (son); Nelly Cates (daughter); Elizabeth Scarlett (daughter); Sally Scarlett (daughter); Delilah Scarlett (daughter); Disey Laycock (daughter); Easter Laycock (daughter)
- Executors
- Joseph (son); Frederick Moize
- Witness
- John (x) Warren
- Land
- land on both sides of Eno River
- Money and goods
- $1
- Places
- Eno River
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 204.
- Abstract: Ruth Herndon Shields, Abstracts of Wills Recorded in Orange County, North Carolina, 1800–1850 (1958), page 134.
- 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).
