Orange County Indexed
Will of Thomas (x) King
Will Book E, page 315 · dated 18 January 1832 · proved May 1834
Thomas King left land to wife Elizabeth, named youngest son Thomas and two daughters, and appointed James Leathers and Elizabeth executors.
- Kind of paper
- Will
- Testator
- Thomas (x) King (printed THOMAS (x) KING)
- Dated
- 18 January 1832
- Proved
- May 1834 court
- Family named
- Elizabeth (wife); Thomas King (youngest son); Dicey King (daughter); Marsha ? Ann King (daughter)
- Executors
- James Leathers (friend); Elizabeth (wife)
- Witnesses
- W. J. Duke; James Leathers
- Land
- land adjoining James Walker and others
- Also named
- James Walker
- In the paper’s words
- “far advanced in years”
Reading note: Shields questions Marsha ? Ann King.
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 315.
- Abstract: Ruth Herndon Shields, Abstracts of Wills Recorded in Orange County, North Carolina, 1800–1850 (1958), page 155.
- 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).
