Orange County Indexed
Will of Hugh (x) McCaddams
Will Book D, page 248 · dated 13 April 1809 · proved August 1809
Hugh McCaddams gave land, money and unnamed enslaved people to his wife and children; Joseph Moore and Robert Fossett were executors.
- Kind of paper
- Will
- Testator
- Hugh (x) McCaddams (printed HUGH (x) McCADDAMS)
- Dated
- 13 April 1809
- Proved
- August 1809 court
- In the court minutes
- Family named
- Caty (wife); James (son); John (son); William (son); Isaac McCaddams (son); Hugh McCaddams (son); David McCaddams (son); Tinnen McCaddams (son); Joseph (son); Nancy McCaddams (daughter); Elizabeth Bason (daughter); Mary McCaddams (daughter); Franky McCaddams (daughter)
- Executors
- Joseph Moore (friends); Robert Fossett (friends)
- Witnesses
- Edward Fossett; Robert Tinnin; George Fausett
- Enslaved people not named
- One enslaved person|enslaved people
- Land
- land
- Money and goods
- $1 each
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 248.
- Abstract: Ruth Herndon Shields, Abstracts of Wills Recorded in Orange County, North Carolina, 1800–1850 (1958), page 39.
- 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).
