Orange County Indexed
Will of John (x) McCrary or McCrory
Will Book D, page 367 · dated 9 January 1813
John McCrary or McCrory left Boyd’s Creek land to Robert and John and named other sons and daughters; no executor was named.
- Kind of paper
- Will
- Testator
- John (x) McCrary or McCrory (printed JOHN (x) McCRARY or McCRORY)
- Dated
- 9 January 1813
- Proved
- Date not given
- A second reading
- Mark Chilton’s index of the will books gives the probate as February 1813. Check the will book to settle it.
- In the court minutes
- Family named
- Robert (son); John (son); Andrew McCrory (son); David McCrory (son); Agness Fossett (daughter); Jane Scarborough (daughter)
- Witnesses
- Samuel Crawford; James Murray
- Land
- land on Boyd’s Creek
- Places
- Boyd’s Creek
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 367.
- Abstract: Ruth Herndon Shields, Abstracts of Wills Recorded in Orange County, North Carolina, 1800–1850 (1958), page 53.
- 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).
