Will of Henry (x) Trice

Henry Trice named two sons and five daughters and appointed Chesley P. Trice and son-in-law William Pearson executors.

Kind of paper

Will

Testator

Henry (x) Trice (printed HENRY (x) TRICE)

Dated

11 April 1840

Proved

May 1840 court

A second reading

Mark Chilton’s index of the will books gives the date as 16 April 1840. Check the will book to settle it.

Family named

Chesley P. Trice (son); Henry D. Trice (son); Nanny Pearson (daughter); Frances Trice (daughter); Amelia Trice (daughter); Elizabeth Marcum (daughter); Sarah Lynn (daughter); William Pearson (son-in-law)

Executors

Chesley P. Trice; William Pearson (son-in-law)

Witnesses

James N. Patterson; David Vickers

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 48.
• Abstract: Ruth Herndon Shields, Abstracts of Wills Recorded in Orange County, North Carolina, 1800–1850 (1958), page 185.
• 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).