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Orange County Indexed

Will of Edwin G. (or T) Thompson

Will Book F, page 106 · dated 22 October 1840 · proved November 1841

Edwin Thompson named wife Eliza and son George Sidney Thompson and appointed Eliza executrix.

Kind of paper
Will
Testator
Edwin G. (or T) Thompson (printed EDWIN G. (or T) THOMPSON)
Dated
22 October 1840
Proved
November 1841 court
Family named
Eliza (wife); George Sidney Thompson (son)
Executor
Eliza (wife)
Witnesses
James N. Thompson; Wm. Pickard

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 F, page 106.
  • Abstract: Ruth Herndon Shields, Abstracts of Wills Recorded in Orange County, North Carolina, 1800–1850 (1958), page 193.
  • 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).
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