Orange County Indexed
Will of Thomas Bird, Sr.
Will Book E, page 362 · dated 23 July 1834 · proved May 1835
Thomas Bird disclaimed his wife Nancy’s premarital property, mentioned children, and appointed son William and Thomas Reeves executors.
- Kind of paper
- Will
- Testator
- Thomas Bird, Sr. (printed THOMAS BIRD, SR.)
- Dated
- 23 July 1834
- Proved
- May 1835 court
- Family named
- Nancy (wife); Thomas (son); William (son)
- Executors
- William (son); Thomas Reeves (friend)
- Witnesses
- Thomas Reeves; William Bird
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 362.
- Abstract: Ruth Herndon Shields, Abstracts of Wills Recorded in Orange County, North Carolina, 1800–1850 (1958), page 162.
- 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).
