Orange County Indexed
Will of Thomas Freeland
Will Book E, page 341 · dated 21 April 1835 · proved May 1835
Thomas Freeland left land to father John, named sister Martha Cloud and unnamed brothers, and appointed John Blackwood executor.
- Kind of paper
- Will
- Testator
- Thomas Freeland (printed THOMAS FREELAND)
- Dated
- 21 April 1835
- Proved
- May 1835 court
- Family named
- John Freeland (father); Martha Cloud (sister)
- Executor
- John Blackwood (worthy friend)
- Witnesses
- James J. Blackwood; David K. Blackwood
- Land
- my land which he now lives on adjoining Charles Johnston, John Blackwood and others
- Also named
- Charles Johnston
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 341.
- Abstract: Ruth Herndon Shields, Abstracts of Wills Recorded in Orange County, North Carolina, 1800–1850 (1958), page 159.
- 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).
