Will of John Flinthom (Flenthom ?)

John Flinthom named Alsey and children and conditionally left a legacy to Nancy Carr if she visited her relations; no executor was named.

Kind of paper

Will

Testator

John Flinthom (Flenthom ?) (printed JOHN FLINTHOM (FLENTHOM ?))

Dated

20 August 1822

Proved

August 1825 court

Family named

Alsey (wife); Clement (son); James (son); Elizabeth Campbell (daughter); Sally Flinthum (daughter)

Also left something

Nancy Carr (relationship not stated)

Witnesses

Archibald Borland; Thomas W. Holden

Reading note: Maker alternate surname questioned; Sally Flinthum variant retained.

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 88.
• Abstract: Ruth Herndon Shields, Abstracts of Wills Recorded in Orange County, North Carolina, 1800–1850 (1958), page 115.
• 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).