Will of Thomas (x) Crabtree

Thomas Crabtree named wife Caty and children, with shilling bequests; brother William Crabtree and nephew James Crabtree were executors.

Kind of paper

Will

Testator

Thomas (x) Crabtree (printed THOMAS (x) CRABTREE)

Dated

10 March 1826

Proved

February 1833 court

Family named

Caty (wife); Harriet (child); Tempe (child); Martha (child); Anne (child); Abram (child); George (child); Jacob (child); Samuel (child); John (my children); Thomas (my children); William (my children); Peggy (my children); Nancy Hunter (?) (my children); Hetty (my children); Susanna (my children); Elizabeth (my children); Abram (my brother); William Crabtree (brother)

Executors

William Crabtree (brother); James Crabtree (son to my brother Abram)

Witnesses

J. Taylor; Thos. Hargis

Money and goods

John Thomas William, Peggy, Nancy Hunter (?) Hetty, Susanna Elizabeth one shilling each

Reading note: Continues PDF223. Children listed without punctuation; Nancy Hunter (?) uncertain as printed. Recorded date is a note on back. Shared surnames were not expanded.

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

• The original is in the State Archives of North Carolina; it was never recorded in the Orange County will books.
• Abstract: Ruth Herndon Shields, Abstracts of Wills Recorded in Orange County, North Carolina, 1800–1850 (1958), page 220.