Will of Joseph Thompson

Joseph Thompson distributed land and a mill among sons, daughters, daughter-in-law, and grandchildren and appointed Thomas Thompson and Daniel Foust executors.

Kind of paper

Will

Testator

Joseph Thompson (printed JOSEPH THOMPSON)

Dated

24 March 1842

Proved

May 1842 court

Family named

Elizabeth (wife); Samuel (son); Thomas (son); Robert Thompson (son); John Thompson (son); Joseph Thompson (son); Thomas Thompson (son); Elinor Foust (daughter); Rachel Morrow (daughter); Jinnet (my son Robert Thompson's children); Elizabeth (my son Robert Thompson's children); Joseph (my son Robert Thompson's children); Samuel (my son Robert Thompson's children); Elender (my son Robert Thompson's children); Lavina Thompson (my son Robert Thompson's children); Lavina Thompson (daughter-in-law); Daniel Foust (son-in-law)

Executors

Thomas Thompson (son); Daniel Foust (son-in-law)

Witnesses

John Thompson; James Paris; Jno. Thompson

Land

his mill; tract whereon she now lives; land divided by Daniel Foust and John Morrow

Also named

Daniel Foust; John Morrow

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 134.
• Abstract: Ruth Herndon Shields, Abstracts of Wills Recorded in Orange County, North Carolina, 1800–1850 (1958), page 196.
• 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).