Orange County Indexed
Will of John Sheels
Will Book B, page 26 · dated 31 October 1787
John Sheels named wife Mary Cumming and appointed her executrix.
- Kind of paper
- Will
- Testator
- John Sheels (printed JOHN SHEELS)
- Dated
- 31 October 1787
- Proved
- Date not given
- Family named
- Mary Cumming (wife)
- Executor
- Mary Cumming (wife)
- Witnesses
- Wm. McCauley; Will Lytle; A. Tatom
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 B, page 26.
- 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).
