Orange County Indexed
Will of John McColloch
Will Book A, page 355 · dated 31 March 1783 · proved February 1785
John McColloch named wife Mary and three sons; John Armstrong and William Brayns were executors.
- Kind of paper
- Will
- Testator
- John McColloch (printed JOHN McCOLLOCH)
- Dated
- 31 March 1783
- Proved
- February 1785 court
- A second reading
- Mark Chilton’s index of the will books gives the testator as John McCulloch. Check the will book to settle it.
- Family named
- Mary (wife); Robert (son); James (son); John (son)
- Executors
- John Armstrong; William Brayns
- Witnesses
- Robert Idan (?); Sarah (x) Locklin; John Armstrong
Reading note: Witness Robert Idan (?) 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 355.
- 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).
