Will of Thomas Couch

Thomas Couch’s first draft distributed land to sons and monetary bequests to Rachel White and other named people; no executor or witnesses were named.

Kind of paper

Will

Testator

Thomas Couch (printed THOMAS COUCH)

Dated

14 January 1828

Family named

Thomas Couch (son); Hardin Couch (son); Isaac Couch (son); Jacob Couch (son); William Couch (son); Samuel Couch (son); Rachel White (daughter)

Also left something

Thomas White; Joseph White Jr; Nancy White; Susannah White

Land

one-half the land I bought of Wm White and part of the tract I bought of Joseph White ... lying on the W side of Piny Mountain Cr.; Peelor tracts adjoining Aquilla Rhodes and the heirs of Benjamin Rhodes

Money and goods

Rachel White $10; Thomas White $10; Joseph White Jr $10; Nancy White $10; Susannah White $10

Also named

Wm White (land bought of); Joseph White (land bought of); Aquilla Rhodes (adjoining); Benjamin Rhodes (heirs adjoining)

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 221.