Orange County Indexed
Will of Edward Thomas
Will Book E, page 387 · dated 24 September 1824 · proved August 1836
Edward Thomas named wife Elizabeth, two sons, and six daughters and appointed Elizabeth executrix.
- Kind of paper
- Will
- Testator
- Edward Thomas (printed EDWARD THOMAS)
- Dated
- 24 September 1824
- Proved
- August 1836 court
- Family named
- Elizabeth (wife); Neamia Thomas (son); Richard Thomas (son); Nelly Hollen (six daughters); Hannah Cook (six daughters); Nancy Hubbert (six daughters); Elizabeth Thomas (six daughters); Jenney Thomas (six daughters); Caty Thomas (six daughters)
- Executor
- Elizabeth (wife)
- Witnesses
- D. Albright; Israel Holt
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 387.
- Abstract: Ruth Herndon Shields, Abstracts of Wills Recorded in Orange County, North Carolina, 1800–1850 (1958), page 168.
- 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).
