Orange County Indexed
Will of Mary (x) Thompson
Will Book E, page 228 · dated 4 February 1823 · proved August 1830
Mary Thompson left sister Hannah money held by brother John and appointed Thomas and Robert Thompson executors.
- Kind of paper
- Will
- Testator
- Mary (x) Thompson (printed MARY (x) THOMPSON)
- Dated
- 4 February 1823
- Proved
- August 1830 court
- Family named
- Thomas Thompson (her father); Hannah Thompson (my sister); John Thompson (my brother)
- Executors
- Thomas Thompson (friends); Robert Thompson (friends)
- Witnesses
- Jo Clendennin; John Thompson
- In the paper’s words
- “weak in body”
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 228.
- Abstract: Ruth Herndon Shields, Abstracts of Wills Recorded in Orange County, North Carolina, 1800–1850 (1958), page 139.
- 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).
