Will of Thomas Weaver

Thomas Weaver named wife Sarah, children, and two grandsons and appointed William G. Weaver and John H. Weaver executors.

Kind of paper

Will

Testator

Thomas Weaver (printed THOMAS WEAVER)

Dated

20 September 1842

Proved

November 1843 court

A second reading

Mark Chilton’s index of the will books gives the probate as November 1844. Check the will book to settle it.

Family named

Sarah (wife); William G. Weaver (eldest son); Isham S. Weaver (second son); John H. Weaver (son); Thos S. Weaver (youngest son); Winnie C Lloyd (eldest daughter); Mary C. Weaver (daughter); Elizabeth C. Weaver (daughter); Samuel (grandsons sons of Isham); George Weaver (grandsons sons of Isham)

Executors

William G. Weaver; John H. Weaver

Witnesses

W. H. Merrett; George W. Purify

Money and goods

$10

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 168.
• Abstract: Ruth Herndon Shields, Abstracts of Wills Recorded in Orange County, North Carolina, 1800–1850 (1958), page 200.
• 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).