Orange County Indexed
Will of Jean (or Jane) (x) McCanless
Will Book D, page 197 · dated 5 February 1806 · proved August 1807
Jean or Jane McCanless left property to six legatees and appointed James H. Bowman and James Murdock executors.
- Kind of paper
- Will
- Testator
- Jean (or Jane) (x) McCanless (printed JEAN (or JANE) (x) McCANLESS)
- Dated
- 5 February 1806
- Proved
- August 1807 court
- Also left something
- John McCanless; John Commins Senior; James McCanless; Elizabeth Hammetton; David McCanless; William McCanless
- Executors
- James H. Bowman; James Murdock
- Witnesses
- John Trimble; Marget (x) Trimble; Sarah (x) Trimble
- Land
- the mansion house
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 197.
- Abstract: Ruth Herndon Shields, Abstracts of Wills Recorded in Orange County, North Carolina, 1800–1850 (1958), page 32.
- 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).
