Orange County Indexed
Will of Anthony (x) Thompson
Will Book E, pages 396–400 · dated 5 August 1824 · proved August 1836
Anthony Thompson distributed land among sons and named daughters, grandchildren, and other beneficiaries.
- Kind of paper
- Will
- Testator
- Anthony (x) Thompson (printed ANTHONY (x) THOMPSON)
- Dated
- 5 August 1824
- Proved
- August 1836 court
- Family named
- MARY HOLT (wife; handwritten annotation); Anderson Thompson (son); William (son); Marmaduke Michael Thompson (son); Anthony (son); Polly (daughter; one hand injured); Nancy (my children); Jane (my children); Letty (my children); Dilly (my children); Marmaduke (my children)
- Witnesses
- Michael Holt; Alfred A. Holt; Joel C. Yancey
- Land
- land whereon he now lives; land on Beaver Creek joining Barney Clap & others
- Money and goods
- $150
- Also named
- Barney Clap
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, pages 396–400.
- Abstract: Ruth Herndon Shields, Abstracts of Wills Recorded in Orange County, North Carolina, 1800–1850 (1958), page 169.
- 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).
