Will of Sarah (x) Thompson

Sarah Thompson named three daughters and six sons and appointed Nicholas and James Forest executors.

Kind of paper

Will

Testator

Sarah (x) Thompson (printed SARAH (x) THOMPSON)

Dated

24 August 1831

Proved

November 1831 court

Family named

John Thompson (son; eldest); James (son); Thomas Thompson (son); Lawrence (son); Joseph (son); Nicholas Thompson (son); Nicholas (son); Ann Thompson (oldest daughter); Jilsey ? Roundtree (next eldest daughter); Rebecca Bird (daughter)

Executors

Nicholas (son); James Forest (friend; Esq.)

Witnesses

Peter Walker; Mathew Brown

Reading note: Shields questions Jilsey ? Roundtree; James, Thomas Thompson and Lawrence, Joseph and Nicholas Thompson have surnames printed once.

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 262.
• Abstract: Ruth Herndon Shields, Abstracts of Wills Recorded in Orange County, North Carolina, 1800–1850 (1958), page 145.
• 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).