Orange County Indexed
Will of Henry McCluer
Will Book D, page 156 · dated 28 October 1804 · proved August 1805
Henry McCluer named wife Mary, sons, daughters, and granddaughter Elizabeth; sons James and John were executors.
- Kind of paper
- Will
- Testator
- Henry McCluer (printed HENRY McCLUER)
- Dated
- 28 October 1804
- Proved
- August 1805 court
- In the court minutes
- Family named
- Mary (wife); James (son); John (son); Henry (son; under age); William (my beloved son); Elizabeth (daughter); Susannah (daughter); Sarah (daughter); Mary (daughter); Ann (daughter); E.D. (daughter); Elizabeth (granddaughter; dau. of Sarah)
- Executors
- James (son); John (son)
- Witnesses
- Wm. Hatchett; John McCullock; Eliz. McCullock
- Land
- James 150 acres and ½ of grist mill and all of saw mill; John 180 acres; Henry 150 acres and plantation I now live on and ½ of grist mill; Elizabeth and Susannah 50 acres each; Mary, Ann, E.D. 50 acres each; granddaughter Elizabeth 50 acres
- Money and goods
- Sarah 5 shillings; William 5 shillings
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 156.
- Abstract: Ruth Herndon Shields, Abstracts of Wills Recorded in Orange County, North Carolina, 1800–1850 (1958), page 25.
- 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).
