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Orange County Indexed

Will of Joseph (x) Canteriel

Will Book D, page 127 · dated 3 January 1804 · proved May 1804

Joseph Canteriel named sons Isaac and Benjamin and daughters Rachel Hensley and Sally Davis; son Isaac Canteriel was sole executor.

Kind of paper
Will
Testator
Joseph (x) Canteriel (printed JOSEPH (x) CANTERIEL)
Dated
3 January 1804
Proved
May 1804 court
A second reading
Mark Chilton’s index of the will books gives the testator as Joseph Cantrell. Check the will book to settle it.
Family named
Isaac Canteriel (son); Benjamin Canteriel (son); Rachel Hensley (daughter); Sally Davis (daughter)
Executor
Isaac Canteriel (son)
Witnesses
Andrew McClary; Conoley Walker

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 D, page 127.
  • Abstract: Ruth Herndon Shields, Abstracts of Wills Recorded in Orange County, North Carolina, 1800–1850 (1958), page 21.
  • 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 80002, “Record of Wills, 1794–1822, Vols. C, D” (State Archives film).
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