Orange County Indexed
Will of John Thompson
Will Book F, pages 357–8 · dated 17 February 1847 · proved August 1847
JOHN THOMPSON made a will; the compiler lists only the testator and dates.
- Kind of paper
- Will
- Testator
- John Thompson (printed JOHN THOMPSON)
- Dated
- 17 February 1847
- Proved
- August 1847 court
- A second reading
- Mark Chilton’s index of the will books gives the date as 17 February 1831. Check the will book to settle it.
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, pages 357–8.
- Abstract: Ruth Herndon Shields, Abstracts of Wills Recorded in Orange County, North Carolina, 1800–1850 (1958), page 217.
- 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).
