Will of John (x) McCallister

John McCallister named wife Rosannah, two sons and seven daughters; brother James McCallister and son-in-law Andrew Patent were executors.

Kind of paper

Will

Testator

John (x) McCallister (printed JOHN (x) McCALLISTER)

Dated

11 July 1768

Proved

July 1768 court

A second reading

Mark Chilton’s index of the will books gives the testator as John McAllister. Check the will book to settle it.

Family named

Rosannah (wife); James (son); Joseph (son); Sarah (unmarried daughters); Mary (unmarried daughters); Martha (unmarried daughters); Margaret McCallister (unmarried daughters); Margaret Patent (married daughters); I .?.. (married daughters); Elizabeth (married daughters)

Executors

James McCallister (brother); Andrew Patent (son-in-law)

Witnesses

Henry Petillo; Cairns Tinnin; Margaret (x) Tinnin

Reading note: Unmarried daughters Sarah, Mary, Martha, Margaret McCallister share one printed surname. Married daughter printed I .?..; retained uncertain name.

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 84.
• 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).