Orange County Indexed
Will of Daniel (x) Hanley
Will Book B, page 262 · dated 3 March 1790 · proved February 1794
Daniel Hanley provided for his wife, six daughters, only son and grandson, devised Cumberland land, and appointed two executors.
- Kind of paper
- Will
- Testator
- Daniel (x) Hanley (printed DANIEL (x) HANLEY)
- Dated
- 3 March 1790
- Proved
- February 1794 court
- In the court minutes
- Family named
- William (my only son); Ester (daughter; both under age); Susannah (daughter; both under age); Ann Linnin (daughter); Elizabeth (daughter); Grace (daughter); Ruth (daughter); Daniel (Grace’s son)
- Executors
- Alexander Mebane; James Mebane
- Witnesses
- William Allen; Daniel Mason
- Deeds that cite this paper
- Deed Book 5, page 70
- Land
- lands on the Cumberland
- Places
- Cumberland
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 262.
- 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).
