Will of Thomas (x) Griffin

Thomas Griffin lent Peggy Griffin a plantation and provided for relatives and friends, appointing Hugh Waddell and Jesse O’Daniel executors.

Kind of paper

Will

Testator

Thomas (x) Griffin (printed THOMAS (x) GRIFFIN)

Dated

27 March 1841

Proved

February 1844 court

Family named

James Griffin (brother); Thomas Griffin (stepson)

Also left something

Peggy Griffin; Peggy Pickard (wife of Alfred Pickard); James Pickard (Peggy Pickard's two sons); Thomas Pickard (Peggy Pickard's two sons); Lilla Wicks (daughters of Jenny Wicks; both under age); Rebecca Wicks (daughters of Jenny Wicks; both under age); Hugh Waddell (friend); Jesse O'Daniel (friends); Henry O'Daniel (friends)

Executors

Hugh Waddell (friends); Jesse O'Daniel (friends)

Witnesses

B. Strowd; Thos. M. Durham; R. Stanford

Land

my plantation which Alfred Pickard now lives on

Money and goods

$1000 each; $500; $200

Also named

Alfred Pickard; Jenny Wicks

In the paper’s words

“weak in body”

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 178.
• Abstract: Ruth Herndon Shields, Abstracts of Wills Recorded in Orange County, North Carolina, 1800–1850 (1958), page 201.
• 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).