Orange County Indexed
Will of Sarah McCracken
Will Book D, page 138 · dated 14 September 1804 · proved November 1804
Sarah McCracken, widow, left articles and notes to Mary Paton and Polly Patton; Robert Patton Senior and David Turrentine were executors.
- Kind of paper
- Will
- Testator
- Sarah McCracken (printed SARAH McCRACKEN), widow
- Dated
- 14 September 1804
- Proved
- November 1804 court
- A second reading
- Mark Chilton’s index of the will books gives the date as 13 September 1804. Check the will book to settle it.
- In the court minutes
- Also left something
- Mary Paton (wife of Robert Paton; at whose House I now reside); Polly Patton (daughter of said Robert Patton)
- Executors
- Robert Patton Senior (trusty friends); David Turrentine (trusty friends)
- Witnesses
- Robert Hodge; Robert Patton, Senior
- Also named
- Robert Paton (husband of Mary Paton); Robert Patton (father of Polly Patton)
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 138.
- Abstract: Ruth Herndon Shields, Abstracts of Wills Recorded in Orange County, North Carolina, 1800–1850 (1958), page 22.
- 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).
