Orange County Indexed
Will of James McCanlis
Will Book A, page 295 · dated 28 December 1783 · proved February 1784
James McCanlis named wife Jane and children and appointed Jane and son David executors.
- Kind of paper
- Will
- Testator
- James McCanlis (printed JAMES McCANLIS)
- Dated
- 28 December 1783
- Proved
- February 1784 court
- In the court minutes
- Family named
- Jane (wife); David (son); John Cammons (my children); Robert Lindsey (my children); Elizabeth John (my children); James (my children); David (my children); William McCanlis (my children)
- Executors
- Jane (wife); David (son)
- Witnesses
- Jno. Armstrong; Thomas Jordan; Anne (x) Armstrong
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 295.
- 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).
