Orange County Indexed
Will of John McKee
Will Book D, page 160 · dated 20 August 1805 · proved November 1805
John McKee provided for wife Catherine and three children, leaving land to John, Alizabeth, and Mary McKee; Catherine, James Clark, and Robert McKee were executors.
- Kind of paper
- Will
- Testator
- John McKee (printed JOHN McKEE)
- Dated
- 20 August 1805
- Proved
- November 1805 court
- Family named
- Catherine (wife); John McKee (son); Alizabeth McKee (daughter); Mary McKee (daughter)
- Executors
- Catherine (Wife); James Clark; Robert McKee
- Witnesses
- Thomas Clark; Agness Anderson
- Land
- John McKee 500 acres; Alizabeth McKee 250 acres; Mary McKee 250 acres
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 160.
- Abstract: Ruth Herndon Shields, Abstracts of Wills Recorded in Orange County, North Carolina, 1800–1850 (1958), page 26.
- 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).
