Orange County Indexed
Will of Thomas Kell
Will Book E, page 58 · dated 31 October 1816 · proved May 1824
Thomas Kell named William and three other children and appointed William Kell and Thomas Riggs executors.
- Kind of paper
- Will
- Testator
- Thomas Kell (printed THOMAS KELL)
- Dated
- 31 October 1816
- Proved
- May 1824 court
- Family named
- William (son); Robert (three children); Thomas (three children); Elizabeth (three children)
- Executors
- William Kell; Thomas Riggs
- Witness
- John Latta
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 58.
- Abstract: Ruth Herndon Shields, Abstracts of Wills Recorded in Orange County, North Carolina, 1800–1850 (1958), page 109.
- 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).
