Orange County Indexed
Will of Melchi (x) Daniel or McDaniel
Will Book A, page 211 · dated 23 January 1779 · proved February 1780
Melchi Daniel named wife Marget and unnamed remaining children; Lewis Kirk and Richard Cate were executors.
- Kind of paper
- Will
- Testator
- Melchi (x) Daniel or McDaniel (printed MELCHI (x) DANIEL or McDANIEL)
- Dated
- 23 January 1779
- Proved
- February 1780 court
- Family named
- Marget (Wife)
- Executors
- Lewis Kirk; Richard Cate
- Witness
- Benjamin (x) McCool (?)
Reading note: Surname alternate McDANIEL; witness Benjamin (x) McCool (?) uncertain.
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 A, page 211.
- Abstract: Ruth Herndon Shields, Abstracts of Wills Recorded 1752 through 1800 in Orange County, North Carolina, Will Books A, B and C (Davie Poplar Chapter NSDAR, revised edition 1966).
- 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 80001, “Record of Wills, 1752–1795, Vols. A, B” (State Archives film).
