Orange County Indexed
Will of Eli McDannell
Will Book B, page 63 · dated 20 April 1789
Eli McDannell named wife Margaret, three sons, two named and two unnamed daughters, distributed land, and appointed Margaret and son John executors.
- Kind of paper
- Will
- Testator
- Eli McDannell (printed ELI McDANNELL)
- Dated
- 20 April 1789
- Proved
- Date not given
- A second reading
- Mark Chilton’s index of the will books gives the testator as Eli McDaniel. Check the will book to settle it.
- Family named
- Margaret (wife); John (son); James (son); Eli (son); Elizabeth (daughter); Susannah (daughter)
- Executors
- Margaret (wife); John (son)
- Witnesses
- Ruth Christmas; Robert Scoby
- Land
- land on Quaker Road adjoining Peter Woolf and Samuel Campbell - bought of C. Lytle; land formerly occupied by Daniel McVey, and also land bought from James Williams; land adjoining above tracts.
- Places
- Quaker Road
- Also named
- Peter Woolf; Samuel Campbell; C. Lytle; Daniel McVey; James Williams
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 63.
- 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).
