Orange County Indexed
Will of Thomas Couch
Will Book F, page 265 · dated 13 February 1845 · proved November 1845
Thomas Couch left his estate to brother William Couch except one unnamed enslaved girl given to Thomas White.
- Kind of paper
- Will
- Testator
- Thomas Couch (printed THOMAS COUCH)
- Dated
- 13 February 1845
- Proved
- November 1845 court
- Family named
- William Couch (his brother)
- To
- Thomas White
- Witnesses
- Abner Copeland; James N. Patterson
- Enslaved people not named
- One enslaved person girl
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 265.
- Abstract: Ruth Herndon Shields, Abstracts of Wills Recorded in Orange County, North Carolina, 1800–1850 (1958).
- 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).
