Orange County Indexed
Will of James McCaddams
Will Book D, page 187 · dated 30 April 1806 · proved February 1807
James McCaddams named his wife, sons and grandson and appointed sons as executors.
- Kind of paper
- Will
- Testator
- James McCaddams (printed JAMES McCADDAMS)
- Dated
- 30 April 1806
- Proved
- February 1807 court
- In the court minutes
- Family named
- Rebeckah (wife); James McCaddams (son); James Hopkins (son); Jos’h McCaddams (son); James (son); Absalom McCaddams (grandson)
- Executors
- Jos’h McCaddams (son); James (son)
- Witnesses
- James McCaddams Jr.; William Crutchfield
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 187.
- Abstract: Ruth Herndon Shields, Abstracts of Wills Recorded in Orange County, North Carolina, 1800–1850 (1958), page 31.
- 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).
