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Orange County Indexed

Will of Thomas Armstrong

Will Book E, pages 247–249 · dated 3 March 1835 · proved May 1835

Thomas Armstrong named his wife, children, and grandchildren and left land and enslaved people to Thomas Lapslie Armstrong.

Kind of paper
Will
Testator
Thomas Armstrong (printed THOMAS ARMSTRONG)
Dated
3 March 1835
Proved
May 1835 court
Family named
Elizabeth (wife); Anderson Armstrong (son); Thomas Lapslie Armstrong (son); James Armstrong (son); Asenath Curree (daughter); Asenath (my children); Thomas Lapslie (my children); Frances E. Armstrong (my children; under 21); Thomas Anderson (her children); Ann Elizabeth (her children); John Currie (son-in-law)
Executors
Anderson Armstrong; Thomas L. Armstrong
Witnesses
William Clark; Jno Bane; Thos. P. Paul
Enslaved people not named
Enslaved people
Land
all my interest in a tract of land lying in Montgomery County, Ga.
Places
Montgomery County, Ga.

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 247–249.
  • Abstract: Ruth Herndon Shields, Abstracts of Wills Recorded in Orange County, North Carolina, 1800–1850 (1958), page 160.
  • Microfilm at the Orange County Public Library, Wall Local History Collection: reel 80003, “Record of Wills, 1822–1851, Vols. E, F” (State Archives film).
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