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Orange County Indexed

Will of Mary (x) Thrift

Will Book E, page 334 · dated 22 November 1834 · proved February 1835

Mary Thrift named daughters Nancy Rosser, Elizabeth Snipes, Polly Lloyd, and son Isham’s children and appointed James Rosser executor.

Kind of paper
Will
Testator
Mary (x) Thrift (printed MARY (x) THRIFT)
Dated
22 November 1834
Proved
February 1835 court
Family named
Isham Thrift (son); Nancy Rosser (daughter); Elizabeth Snipes (daughter); Polly Lloyd (daughter)
Executor
James Rosser
Witnesses
B. Strowd; Wilson Atwater
In the paper’s words
“weak of 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 334.
  • Abstract: Ruth Herndon Shields, Abstracts of Wills Recorded in Orange County, North Carolina, 1800–1850 (1958), page 158.
  • 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).
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