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Orange County Indexed

Will of Samuel McCaddams or McAdams

Will Book B, page 99 · dated 25 August 1790

Samuel McCaddams named his wife, mother, brothers and children and appointed two friends executors.

Kind of paper
Will
Testator
Samuel McCaddams or McAdams (printed SAMUEL McCADDAMS or McADAMS)
Dated
25 August 1790
Proved
1790 (no day or month given)
Family named
Catherine (wife); Mary (daughter); Sarah (my children); Catherine (my children); Ellender (my children); John (my children); Joseph (my children); William (my children); Sarah McCaddams (mother); Joseph (brother); William (brother)
Executors
John Sloss (my trusty friends); Andrew Murdock (my trusty friends)
Witnesses
Thos Mulholland; Jno. Unstead; Alex. Kirkpatrick

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 99.
  • 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).
  • Microfilm at the Orange County Public Library, Wall Local History Collection: reel 80001, “Record of Wills, 1752–1795, Vols. A, B” (State Archives film).
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